Goat-gate opens can of worms

CONTROVERSIAL businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, who are currently languishing in remand prison over a US$7 million fraud charge, allegedly used the same modus operandi to receive funds for projects at the Harare City Council and failed to deliver on their promises, it has emerged.

Chimombe (43) and Mpofu (49) were arraigned before the courts for allegedly defrauding the government in the goat-gate scandal and were remanded in custody until tomorrow for bail application continuation.

According to sources at Town House, the pair used similar methods to allegedly swindle Harare City Council through Mpofu’s Synlak (Pvt) Limited.

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