High Court judge, Justice Priscilla Chigumba on Wednesday, released a senior intelligence officer, Mbereki Mbizo Nyathi and an Indian national, Abdul Ismael, who are facing allegations of stealing a motor vehicle from South Africa. The pair was granted $200 bail each coupled with stringent conditions.
BY CHARLES LAITON
As part of their bail conditions, the two were ordered to report every Friday at Harare Central Police Station, to surrender their travel documents and not to interfere with State witnesses until the finalisation of their matter.
The judge said she would give detailed reasons why she granted the pair bail in due course.
Allegations against the two are that sometime in January 2015, they acted in common purpose and connived to steal a BMW 320D vehicle in South Africa while acting in cahoots with Hillary Nduna, who appeared in court earlier this week, together with a South African syndicate.
The State alleges when the vehicle was stolen, Nyathi (44) and Ismael (30) brought it into the country and fraudulently obtained a registration book with numbers ADU6982, from the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR).
After fraudulently registering the car, it is alleged, Ismael took the car to Nyathi’s residence for safekeeping, taking advantage of his position as a State security agent.
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However, after receiving the car, Nyathi is said to have started using the vehicle.
In the court papers submitted with the application, the Prosecutor-General’s Office said: “The CVR has confirmed that the registration of the motor vehicle was fraudulently done and obtained a registration book, which was stolen from South Africa in order to evade payment of duty to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.”
The two were represented by Admire Rubaya and Oliver Marwa, while the State was represented by senior law officer, Edmore Nyazamba.
