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Duo up for $2m diamonds theft
15 Mar 2018 at 04:59hrs | Views
TWO men are on trial for theft of 375 pieces of diamonds valued at $2 million from a Chikanga woman.
Tineyi Mudavanhu, 30, and Goodhope Mavhengere, 43, are denying the charges and judgment will be passed today by magistrate Tendai Mahwe.
The duo is being charged with theft as defined by section 113 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act chapter 9:23 or alternatively fraud as defined in section 136 of the same act.
Margaret Nyandura, 57, of Mutare is the complainant in the case.
It is the State's case that sometime in 2008, the duo and the late Tafadzwa Mahara, Creaven Munyaradzi, Cosmas Jamba, Samson Makombe and Creamson Dzapasi hatched a plan to steal diamonds from the complainant.
On June 2, 2008 they approached the elderly woman purporting to be diamond dealers but when she showed them some of the diamonds they said they did not have enough money to complete the transaction.
On June 3, the team returned and as the diamonds were placed on the table to be weighed two of the accused's accomplices entered the house purporting to be police officers from the Criminal Investigations Department.
They demanded and took 375 pieces of diamonds from the complainant purporting to have arrested her.
They took the diamonds away purporting to be going to Mutare Central Police Station while leaving the complainant behind. She later made a follow-up at the police station where she discovered that the arrest was a hoax. Four days later, Mudavanhu and Makombe returned to her house and informed her that they were under arrest and in police custody all the while and indicated that they had been given back 36 pieces of diamonds.
She refused to accept her diamonds back. The 365 pieces are valued at about $2 million dollars and nothing was recovered.
Cuthbert Bhosha was prosecuting.
Tineyi Mudavanhu, 30, and Goodhope Mavhengere, 43, are denying the charges and judgment will be passed today by magistrate Tendai Mahwe.
The duo is being charged with theft as defined by section 113 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act chapter 9:23 or alternatively fraud as defined in section 136 of the same act.
Margaret Nyandura, 57, of Mutare is the complainant in the case.
It is the State's case that sometime in 2008, the duo and the late Tafadzwa Mahara, Creaven Munyaradzi, Cosmas Jamba, Samson Makombe and Creamson Dzapasi hatched a plan to steal diamonds from the complainant.
On June 3, the team returned and as the diamonds were placed on the table to be weighed two of the accused's accomplices entered the house purporting to be police officers from the Criminal Investigations Department.
They demanded and took 375 pieces of diamonds from the complainant purporting to have arrested her.
They took the diamonds away purporting to be going to Mutare Central Police Station while leaving the complainant behind. She later made a follow-up at the police station where she discovered that the arrest was a hoax. Four days later, Mudavanhu and Makombe returned to her house and informed her that they were under arrest and in police custody all the while and indicated that they had been given back 36 pieces of diamonds.
She refused to accept her diamonds back. The 365 pieces are valued at about $2 million dollars and nothing was recovered.
Cuthbert Bhosha was prosecuting.
Source - dailynews
