LONDON, Feb 16: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has bought a 4 million pound ($5.6m) home in Hong Kong, Britain’s Sunday Times reported.

Citing unnamed sources in Zimbabwe, the newspaper identified an intermediary who it said had helped arranged the purchase of the three-storey property, in a walled and gated complex in an exclusive area of Hong Kong.

It was bought last year, as Mugabe’s 20-year-old daughter began studying at the University of Hong Kong, the newspaper said.

The paper said it was one of several properties the Mugabes own in Asia but the first to be documented.

Speculation intensified during last year’s election turmoil that Mugabe may be looking for a way out of office after he lost the first round to Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai.—Reuters