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By newsday
February 25, 2019
National News
A MUTARE man has been jailed 20 months for fraudulently selling a residential stand belonging to another person for R65 000. ...
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By newsday
February 11, 2019
National News
A 28-YEAR-OLD EcoCash serial fraudster was slapped with a six-year jail term by Guruve magistrate, Artwell Sanyatwe, on Friday last week for defrauding a retail outlet of groceries worth $12 000. ...
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By newsday
January 10, 2019
National News Slider
Midlands-based Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot manager and his wife on Tuesday appeared before Gweru magistrate Progress Murandu facing charges of defrauding the parastatal of more than $25 000. ...
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By newsday
February 25, 2015
Arts & Culture Opinion & Editorials
IT has emerged that the much-hyped messy confrontation between singer Mathias Mhere and his wife Susan Dzinamarira was a mere “stagemanaged” antic designed to market his latest album Glory To Glory, this publication has learnt. ...
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By newsday
February 16, 2015
News
THE wrangle over the $2 200 which was allegedly taken without authority from the Zimbabwe National Editors’ Forum (Zinef)’s coffers has taken another turn with Zinef chairman Brian Mangwende saying the transaction was above board. ...
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By newsday
December 20, 2014
ZETDC employee up for fraud
A MUTARE-based Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company employee was on Thursday hauled before Mutare magistrate facing charges of stealing $76 000. Do you have a coronavirus story? ...
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By newsday
October 2, 2014
Pyramid scheme executives in court over $1m fraud
THE trial of three Capital Base Savings and Credit Co-operative Society executives facing charges of defrauding their clients of over $1 million resumed yesterday in Mutare. ...
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By newsday
September 16, 2014
News
THE Small Enterprises Development Corporation reportedly lost around $800 000 between 2010 and 2012 due to fraudulent activities and ineffective accounting processes involving its staff. ...
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By newsday
September 6, 2014
Fraud trial of cop kicks off
THE trial of a police officer who successfully applied for a job as a security guard with the Zimbabwe Open University and earned over $8 000 during a period of 16 months while he was still in the police force opened in Harare yesterday. ...
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By newsday
July 8, 2014
Ecocash subscriber up for $5 000 fraud
A 27-year-old Seke villager who allegedly defrauded several people of thousands of dollars through Ecocash yesterday appeared in court facing a $5 000 fraud charge. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
May 30, 2014
Firm up for fraudulent sale of State land
TOBACCO Sales Limited Company (TSLC) has been accused of fraudulently selling State land in Mazowe resulting in a local businessman losing over $600 000 in a fumbled deal. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
May 19, 2014
Former cop faces $430 fraud charge
A FORMER police detective based in Kadoma, Kingston Dick, appeared in court last Friday facing a 2011 fraud charge involving $430. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
April 29, 2014
Kadoma man gets 72 months for fraud
A 37-YEAR-OLD Kadoma man, Tawanda Herman Munda, has been slapped with a 72-month jail term by a magistrate after he was found guilty of seven counts of fraud. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
March 3, 2014
Chrome miner acquitted on $40 000 fraud charge
ZIMBABWEAN chrome miner Symptoms Siwawa, who was facing charges of defrauding a South African businessman of $40 000 in an alleged botched chrome deal, has been acquitted. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
January 27, 2014
National News
A RECORD 22 000 witnesses are yet to have their statements recorded in the $6 million fraud case involving businessman-cum musician Energy Mutodi. ...
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By newsday
November 18, 2013
News
DAVID Muramba, a messenger with a Harare accounting company has been jailed for eight years for defrauding his employer of $164 000 through the use of fake receipts. ...
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By newsday
November 11, 2013
News
TWO suspected Harare fraudsters appeared in court last Friday charged with defrauding a finance company, Cover Link Finance, of thousands of dollars. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
July 13, 2013
Man accused of scheming to defraud stepson
A GERMAN national’s bid to defraud his mentally-retarded stepson of his late mother’s estate worth over $1 million backfired after the alleged scam was exposed. ...
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By newsday
June 29, 2013
Funeral policy cheat nabbed
A 24-YEAR-OLD Chiredzi man’s attempt to defraud a funeral assurance company by falsely claiming that his son and mother-in-law had died in a road accident hit a brick wall. ...
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By newsday
May 15, 2013
Woman jailed for land fraud
A 55-YEAR-OLD Epworth woman was on Monday sentenced to five years in prison after she was convicted of defrauding several people of $18 223 through the sale of residential stands over which she had no ownership. ...
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By newsday
April 18, 2013
News
NATIONAL Foods Limited is up in arms with a local wholesale dealer, Utete Brothers P/C, over a $94 000 debt after the latter, through its officials, allegedly fraudulently purchased goods for resale. ...
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By newsday
March 5, 2013
Mhondoro man up for fraud
A MHONDORO man is being sued for allegedly defrauding a prospective home-seeker of $22 000 which he is said to have received in instalments before selling the house to another buyer. ...
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By newsday
January 30, 2013
News
A 24-year-old Bulawayo fraudster who landed a job at the Zimbabwe United Passengers Company (Zupco) using a stolen curriculum vitae (CV) and Ordinary Level certificate was lucky to escape a custodial term after the court found him guilty of fraud. ...
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By newsday
January 4, 2013
News
A State-registered nurse employed by Kwekwe City Council recently appeared in court facing three charges of fraud, operating two unlicenced private clinics and contravening the Labour Act after she failed to pay her 21 clinic employees. ...
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By newsday
January 4, 2013
News
A HUMAN resources manager with a local transport company, Western Transport, allegedly swindled his employer of more than $24 000 after he created a ghost worker and channelled the alleged worker’s monthly salaries into his personal account for 21 months. ...
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By newsday
December 28, 2012
News
A 29-year-old Harare woman’s alleged attempts to enrich herself through deceitful means backfired after she was arrested for swindling her employer of over $23 000. ...
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By newsday
December 21, 2012
News
TWO men believed to be Mozambican nationals were on Tuesday arrested in Bulawayo after they allegedly tried to cheat some businessmen in a deal where they promised to produce counterfeit United States dollars for them. ...
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By newsday
December 19, 2012
News
CINCINNATI — A Zimbabwe man accused in an Ohio-based tax fraud case that prosecutors say netted him and six others up to $10 million, has changed his plea to guilty. ...
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By newsday
December 14, 2012
News
THE acting headmaster of Gandavaroyi Primary School in Gokwe North Peter Chihiya (44) on Wednesday appeared in court for allegedly writing Grade Seven examinations for pupils. ...
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By newsday
December 13, 2012
News
CLOSE to 200 resettled farmers thronged the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday where a 32-year-old woman Angela Chipiti appeared in court charged with allegedly defrauding them of over 190 tonnes of maize worth $90 720. ...
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