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Court orders Mohadi, Chihuri to reimburse $78 900 exhibit money
20 Feb 2015 at 09:23hrs | Views
High Court judge Justice Joseph Musakwa has ordered Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi and Commissioner -General of Police Augustine Chihuri to reimburse about $79 000 collected from a theft suspect, but never recorded in the exhibits books.
The money belonged to Mutare man Tendai Blessing Mangwiro. On Wednesday, Justice Musakwa granted a default judgment against Mohadi, Chihuri, Officer-In-Charge CID Suspects Harare Central Police and one Detective Inspector Mukambi.
The judge noted that following Mangwiro's arrest on February 16 2008 on charges of stealing the money from Andre Nsaka Nsaka, police released the cash to the latter before the matter went for trial.
Mangwiro was later tried at the Rusape Magistrates' Court in November 2008 and found not guilty.
The court further noted that the cash in question and the motor vehicles that had been seized from Mangwiro were never made part of exhibits in the theft matter that was later brought before a Rusape magistrate.
Mangwiro had also claimed reimbursement of his Z$46 135 000 000 which he claimed was now worth about $1,5 million, but Justice Musakwa ruled that his claim could not be granted.
Source - newsday
