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Bogus lawyer finally convicted
18 Nov 2016 at 18:17hrs | Views
Bogus lawyer Sofat Chumbu (54) was finally convicted at the Bindura provincial magistrate's court after defrauding a number of people in areas around Mvurwi.
Chumbu was sentenced to pay US$200 fine in addition 7 months were suspended on condition that the accused pays back the complainant Eleven Gaura a sum of US$700 on or before the 30th of December 2016.
The bogus lawyer is said to have been a liaising officer for a Harare lawyer who never showed up in Mvurwi prompting Chumbu to impersonate him and representing people at the Guruve magistrate court as a registered and practising legal practitioner. In violation of the Legal Practitioners Act [Chapter 27:07] section 9 (1).
His luck ran out when he defrauded Gaura of an amount estimated at US$1000 and Gaura filed a police report at Mvurwi police station promoting the police to investigate his authenticity.
The police went to the Law Society of Zimbabwe and discovered that he did not exist in the register of practising legal practitioners and did not have a practising certificate and was arrested.
Meanwhile, bogus lawyers seem to be mushrooming in Mvurwi and touting for work in the name of legal aid.
Chumbu was sentenced to pay US$200 fine in addition 7 months were suspended on condition that the accused pays back the complainant Eleven Gaura a sum of US$700 on or before the 30th of December 2016.
The bogus lawyer is said to have been a liaising officer for a Harare lawyer who never showed up in Mvurwi prompting Chumbu to impersonate him and representing people at the Guruve magistrate court as a registered and practising legal practitioner. In violation of the Legal Practitioners Act [Chapter 27:07] section 9 (1).
His luck ran out when he defrauded Gaura of an amount estimated at US$1000 and Gaura filed a police report at Mvurwi police station promoting the police to investigate his authenticity.
The police went to the Law Society of Zimbabwe and discovered that he did not exist in the register of practising legal practitioners and did not have a practising certificate and was arrested.
Meanwhile, bogus lawyers seem to be mushrooming in Mvurwi and touting for work in the name of legal aid.
Source - Byo24News
