FORMER Finance deputy minister and Harare East MP Terrence Mukupe, who was on trial for smuggling a tanker filled with diesel into the country without paying duty, was yesterday found guilty and convicted by the High Court. Mukupe and his accomplices, Same Kapisoriso, Ngonidzishe Mutsvene and Joseph Taderera, were arrested in 2017 after being intercepted…
THE attempted murder trial of Marry Mubaiwa at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday failed to continue after the former model’s lawyer, Harrison Nkomo, did not come to court. Mubaiwa, who is on trial for allegedly attempting to kill her former husband, Vice President Constatino Chiwenga, while he was hospitalised in South Africa, recently hired a…
TWO Harare car dealers allegedly worked together and sold a vehicle that they had illegally imported into the country without paying duty at the border. Crismus Mabvanya, 41, of Gletwin, and Alexander Takudzwa Takaenda, 26, of Borrowdale, appeared before Harare magistrate Ethel Chichera, charged with fraud, yesterday.The pair was granted free bail and will return…
A MAN, suspected to be the leader of a machete-wielding gang, commonly known as ‘Mashurugwi’, that was terrorising residents in Lowdale and Christon Bank areas in Mazowe, was arrested in Shurugwi in Midlands Province after allegedly murdering a man. The suspected murderer, Nkulumo Dube, 33, who is facing murder charges, was arraigned before Harare magistrate…
A SUSPECTED hacker allegedly tried to steal US$25 000 from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Group by hacking into their bank account and transferring the money into a different account. Evidence Tapuwa Dube, 31, of Mt Pleasant, Harare, was brought before magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing a charge of fraud, or alternatively, cybercrime.Dube…
TWO brothers from Zengeza, Chitungwiza, who were arrested after going on a robbery spree in greater Harare, have each been sentenced to 22 years in prison after being found guilty. Admire Sachoto, 33, and his older brother Clever, 43, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of robbery when they appeared before Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure. The…
THREE men, one of them a student at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), allegedly killed a bouncer who had been hired to retrieve money they owed to a sex worker. Tinotenda Chivizhe, 28, Terrence Nyasha Mugocha, 21 and Proud Tawananyasha Kaguda, 21, are now facing a charge of murder and were remanded in custody by…
THE High Court has quashed and set aside the conviction of jailed popular comedienne Felistas Murata, better known as Mai Titi. Murata was found guilty in June of theft of trust property after Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda convicted her of using a rented car as collateral for a loan. Following her conviction and sentence, she…
A SUSPECTED drug dealer sent police detectives from CID Drugs and Narcotics on a wild goose chase around High Glen and Mufakose in Harare while evading arrest. Leeroy Bruce Tungama, 28, was arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi last Friday facing a charge of dealing in dangerous drugs. State prosecutor Zebediah Bofu told the court…
A CIVIL Registry employee based in Mazowe district, Mashonaland Central Province, is accused of assisting three suspected kidnappers who sought to smuggle girls to China by falsifying documents to indicate that their victims were of legal age. Ephraim Tendakai Rufaro Dzumbunu, 37, is accused of aiding the kidnappers despite being aware of their plans, in…
