Mujuru's daughter, Nyasha del Campo, tried to sell 3.7 tonnes of old which could be worth up to 92.5 million dollars (72.6 million euros) last November, Bernd Hagemann, vice-president of Firstar Europe, told AFP

Zimbabwe's Vice-President Joyce Mujuru was involved in an effort to
sell gold from DR Congo on the international market despite European
sanctions, a trading company alleged Tuesday.

When his firm refused to do the deal and put those allegedly
involved on its blacklist, Mujuru made a menacing phone call to him,
Hagemann claimed.

Hagemann said Firstar Europe had been contacted by a broker in
Madrid about a possible deal, which was then referred to its due
diligence department.

Del Campo had repeatedly stressed that funding for the deal would
come from her mother, whose identity the firm was then unaware of, he
said.

"We didn't know at this time that she was the daughter of the
vice-president of Zimbabwe. She said all the time 'my mother will pay
that,'" Hagemann said.

"After the documents came back from due diligence, I saw them and I
saw also the result of the due diligence, it was very high crime people
all involved".

Mujuru and her husband are on a European Union sanctions list issued
in 2004 due to human rights violations.

The firm told del Campo that it could not accept the gold, which he
said came from the eastern Democatic Republic of Congo -- wracked by
fighting between government and rebel forces in recent months, although
now working towards a peace deal.

Those allegedly involved were subsequently blacklisted by the firm.

Mujuru herself also made a sinister phone call to the company, based
in Warrington, northwest England, Hagemann claimed.

"Mrs Mujuru phoned me and she said to me -- it was a very short call
--if you don't put my daughter and me out of the blacklist, I will give
an order that someone will visit you," he said, adding there had been
no threats or violence since.

Asked why the firm had decided to publicise its allegations,
Hagemann said he wanted to deter people who wanted to sell gold
illegally.

"We are a totally legal dealer and we cannot accept criminal
things," he added.

The firm has published documents relating to the alleged affair on
its website.

There was no immediate reaction from Mujuru to the allegations. The
BBC reported that del Campo declined to comment and is consulting her
lawyers.