(Xinhua) -- President Robert Mugabe has said he has no assets in foreign countries and told the British and the European Union to seize any if they find them, according to a report by Zimbabwe's state-owned The Herald newspaper Tuesday.
This report came after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday that he had asked the British Finance Ministry to hunt down the assets of senior Zimbabwean officials and pledged to ramp up the illegal sanctions.
The report quoted analysts as saying that Britain's move is aimed to help Zimbabwean opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who won a leading number of votes in Zimbabwe's first round of presidential election but boycotted the run-off, citing violence against his supporters as the major reason.
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