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Zanu-PF youth league trio in soup over donations

by Staff reporter
19 Feb 2016 at 08:05hrs | Views
Three Zanu-PF youth league members allegedly forged the signature of Harare provincial secretary for finance, Dumisani Chipango, and solicited for about $18 000 donations since 2014.

Innocent Nyamuronda (33), Tawanda Sarari (24) and Timothy Mtanga (28) appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa. The trio from Mufakose in Harare is facing nine counts of fraud.

Mugwagwa remanded them to March 18 on $100 bail each. As part of their bail conditions, Mugwagwa ordered each to surrender their passports, to report every Friday at CID Frauds and to reside at their given addresses.

The prosecutor Sebastian Mutizirwa, alleged that the trio designed a request for donations letters in the name of Zanu-PF Harare Province Youth League.

In the letters, the accused endorsed their People's Own Savings Bank (POSB) account number 500000494921 Causeway branch. Nyamuronda allegedly forged Chipango's signature or undersigned some of the letters himself.

Source - the herald