THE matter in which an ex-army captain was nabbed on allegations of trying to influence illegal entry of 31 AK 47 rifles into the country from South Africa has taken a new twist with his lawyer seeking to have the matter heard in camera. Leonard Matambo is in custody waiting for a ruling on his…
THE State says senior lawyer Simplicius Chihambakwe, accused of corruptly concealing a transaction after his firm was engaged to provide debt collection services for the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company, getting over US$3 million in commission at a time he was a board member, has a case to answer. This is after he had…
SENIOR Harare lawyer Simplicius Chihambakwe, accused of corruptly concealing a transaction after his fi rm was engaged to provide debt collection services for the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company at a time he was a board member, says the allegations are designed to embarrass him. He was in court yesterday where he pleaded not…
LAWYERS representing politicians Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole have called for the incarceration of senior public prosecutors Michael Reza and Lancelot Mutsokoti on allegations of contempt of court. This was after the politicians’ lawyers Beatrice Mtetwa and Jeremiah Bamu argued that the prosecutors had failed to give them State papers to prepare for their clients’…
A FORMER Karoi magistrate has been jailed for one year after accepting a $20 bribe to influence a decision in a civil matter. Amanda Muridzo and clerk of court Shelter Kachirika, who brought her the $20 deal, were slapped with 18 months imprisonment each before six months were suspended for five years on condition of…
A HARARE woman found herself in court accused of misrepresenting that Vice-president Constantino Chiwenga was to host a dinner dance for President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, ’s endorsement as Zanu PF presidential candidate for next year’s polls. Joyce Marufu, 40, was not asked to plead to fraud allegations when she appeared before Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda…
A FORMER captain in the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has been nabbed on allegations of conspiring to smuggle 31 AK47 rifles and magazines into the country. Leonard Matambo, 61, who is now employed at the Zimbabwe Defence Industries, is alleged to have written a letter to a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority manager at the Beitbridge Border Post…
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president Felton Kamambo accused of buying his way to the soccer governing body’s presidency, has been remanded in hospital after collapsing at home. His defence case was set to open yesterday before regional magistrate Bianca Makwande but it could not proceed following his illness. The court remanded Kamambo on his…
THE trial of businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his Intratek Zimbabwe firm facing fraud allegations of swindling the Zimbabwe Power Company of US$5,6 million in the Gwanda Solar Project has been pushed to October 24 after his lawyers wrote to the prosecution over the matter. The matter was set for yesterday following the Supreme Court’s decision…
A MARONDERA man has been jailed for five years after he was convicted of unlawfully possessing 40 bags of dagga weighing 597kg. Christopher Muza had denied the allegations, but he was convicted after a full trial resulting in him being slapped with an effective five-year prison term. The court heard that on July 10 last…
