CID boss claims officers planted cash in Cabinet

Bulawayo's CID Fraud boss, George Machinga, who is facing charges of criminal abuse of office following allegations that he solicited a $300 bribe from a man accused of fraud, yesterday claimed that police officers who searched his office planted the cash in the steel cabinet.

Machinga, the officer in charge at CID Fraud Section at Cabs Building, appeared before Magistrate Gladmore Mushove at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Courts where he pleaded not guilty to the fraud charges.

He told the court that the officers found the banknotes stashed under a picture frame inside a metal filling cabinet in the office, after two and half hours of searching.