DYNAMOS Football Club chairman Bernard Marriot Lusengo has appeared in court on a fresh fraud charge involving the club’s shareholding. Lusengo, 74, has a pending fraud charge in which he is accused of manipulating the share structure and allocating himself 51 percent shares allegedly swindling former players of their shares. In the fresh charge, former…
FOUR detectives who were arrested over the weekend for allegedly stealing a safe with US$70 000 and jewellery worth US$10 000 from a suspect they had arrested have appeared in court. Edward Mateta, Tinashe Matongo, Princes Mavis Matikiti and Costa Davison were not asked to plead to allegations of criminal abuse of duty or alternatively…
A LOCAL company has been nabbed for allegedly trying to swindle the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) of over US$15 million after…
AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) secretary-general Robson Chere has been implicated in the death of a colleague at a hotel…
ZIMBABWE Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) acting general manager Lovemore Chinaka has been cleared of allegations of violating tender procedures in the awarding of a US$1,4 million contract for the supply of cables. He was charged with criminal abuse of office as a public officer and alternatively fraud, allegations he denied when the trial…
COTTON Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) bosses Pious Manamike and Maxmore Njanji, who were arrested on corruption-related charges, accused of contracting their vehicles to ferry inputs to cotton depots without disclosing it, have been freed on $100 000 bail each. The two are alleged to have supplied 40 trucks which only delivered inputs to depots along…
TWO suspected bogus anti-corruption commissioners, who were allegedly targeting public figures in attempts to extort money from them on the guise that their employer the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission was investigating them on corruption, have been denied bail. Felix Rimaunga and Brian Nyazamba are facing nine counts of extortion and the court ruled that they were…
SENTENCING for two Mashwede Holdings employees convicted for stealing fuel coupons worth over US$16 000 and claiming they had been stolen during a robbery at the company’s premises has been shelved after one of them raised constitutional issues. Ernest Nevanji Madanhire and Edson Mashamhanda were convicted of theft of trust property and were remanded in…
A BOOKKEEPER and an information communication technology officer have been convicted for stealing fuel coupons worth over US$16 000 from their employer Mashwede Holdings and claiming they had been stolen during a robbery at the company’s premises in Harare. Edson Mashamhanda and Ernest Nevanji Madanhire were convicted yesterday of theft of trust property and were…
A 29-YEAR-OLD man from Chinamhora in Domboshava, Mashonaland East province, has been nabbed for allegedly stabbing two friends to death in a pub with a beer bottle after one of them fondled his wife’s breast on the dance floor. Terrence Janguma could not stomach seeing his wife being fondled by one Allan Mugova, leading to…
