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Company director up for fraud
30 Jan 2014 at 23:21hrs | Views
A 39-year-old company director, Blessing Munofa Munjoma, has appeared in court in connection with a bank scandal in which the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development allegedly lost over US$500 000.
Delight Technologies (Pvt) Ltd director Munjoma, of Mabelreign in Harare, who was represented by Mr James Makiya, appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Donald Ndirowei charged with fraud and was remanded out of custody on US$200 bail.
Munjoma was ordered to report twice a week to the nearest police station and not to interfere with investigations, the Herald reported.
Its is alleges that between August 15, 2013 and January 16 this year, Munjoma connived with Nicola Gweshe (28), a bank trainee customer service officer in Mutare, and Dionne Kwezani (27), a teller with the same financial institution in Harare, to open accounts in the names of different companies.
Gweshe and Kwezani have since appeared in court on the same charge.
Ms Mashavira told the court that Gweshe's duties included verifying information on new account applications with Kwezani.
Gweshe allegedly facilitated the opening of a bank account in the name of ZMDC (Pvt) Ltd using fraudulent documents, while Munjoma connived with Kwezani to facilitate the opening of another account in the name of Bryte Course Investments and several other companies.
On January 14 this year, one of them allegedly raised five fraudulent daily internal payment instructions purporting that the Mines Ministry had authorised the transfer of US$366 385,40 into the fictitious companies' bank accounts.
A total of US$104 200 was transferred into the ZMDC (Pvt) Ltd bank account and US$146 293 was transferred into Chikuti Gold Mine's account.
Another US$107 300 was transferred into Bryte Course's account.
They also allegedly transferred other funds into different fraudulent accounts.
Delight Technologies (Pvt) Ltd director Munjoma, of Mabelreign in Harare, who was represented by Mr James Makiya, appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Donald Ndirowei charged with fraud and was remanded out of custody on US$200 bail.
Munjoma was ordered to report twice a week to the nearest police station and not to interfere with investigations, the Herald reported.
Its is alleges that between August 15, 2013 and January 16 this year, Munjoma connived with Nicola Gweshe (28), a bank trainee customer service officer in Mutare, and Dionne Kwezani (27), a teller with the same financial institution in Harare, to open accounts in the names of different companies.
Gweshe and Kwezani have since appeared in court on the same charge.
Ms Mashavira told the court that Gweshe's duties included verifying information on new account applications with Kwezani.
Gweshe allegedly facilitated the opening of a bank account in the name of ZMDC (Pvt) Ltd using fraudulent documents, while Munjoma connived with Kwezani to facilitate the opening of another account in the name of Bryte Course Investments and several other companies.
On January 14 this year, one of them allegedly raised five fraudulent daily internal payment instructions purporting that the Mines Ministry had authorised the transfer of US$366 385,40 into the fictitious companies' bank accounts.
A total of US$104 200 was transferred into the ZMDC (Pvt) Ltd bank account and US$146 293 was transferred into Chikuti Gold Mine's account.
Another US$107 300 was transferred into Bryte Course's account.
They also allegedly transferred other funds into different fraudulent accounts.
Source - Herald
