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Chivayo, Intratrek acquitted of defrauding ZPC
Maverick Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo and his company Intratrek Zimbabwe have been acquitted of defrauding the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of US$5.8 million.In a judgement handed down ...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 21:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Chivayo's US$25m lawsuit overstated'
ZIMBABWE Power Company (ZPC)'s renewable projects manager Cleophas Fambi told the High Court on Wednesday that businessman Wicknell Chivayo's US$25 million lawsuit was overstated.Fambi was tes...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo says ZPC owes Intratrek US$600k as trial fails to take off
The National Prosecuting Authority on Thursday revived criminal charges against Intratrek Zimbabwe and its director Wicknell Chivayo over the stalled US$173 million Gwanda solar power project, as defe...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade is fast-losing steam
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) launched the special anti-corruption courts with fanfare slightly more than a year ago, but a cocktail of challenges is retarding the prosecution of graft-accused...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Charles Laiton
State appeals Chivayo ruling
State prosecutors have filed a notice of appeal against businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo's acquittal by the High Court in a $5,6 million fraud involving the Gwanda solar project.Mr Chivayo and ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo acquitted
The High Court has acquitted Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo of any criminal liability in the alleged US$5.6 million fraud and violation of the exchange control charges.Harare High Court j...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PRAZ corners Chivayo's Intratrek over Gwanda project
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has written to Intratrek Zimbabwe - that is locked in a contractual dispute with Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) - emphasising the point that it ha...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo failed to deliver, court told
Wicknell Chivayo did not carry out any meaningful work on the Gwanda solar project despite being paid US$5 million in advance, State witness and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) financial director Mr Eube...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo cornered on fraud
THE criminal trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Limited director Wicknell Chivayo will now proceed after the High Court in Harare overruled his bid to block prosecution on corruption charges involving ...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'arrest and release on bail' program exposed
The new dispensation government led by President Mnangagwa on dealing with corruption has turned to be a talkshop staged cosmetics theatre which Zimbabweans are not ready for in the brink of a collaps...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 16:38hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chivayo vs ZPC judgement expected today
The High Court is today expected to deliver judgment in a case in which Intratrek Zimbabwe managing director Wicknell Chivayo sued the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) for US$25 million for instigating ma...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Former Minister Undenge acquitted
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Samuel Undenge was on Monday acquitted on the criminal of abuse of office charges.Undenge was accused of using undue influence to fo...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 11:29hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Wicknell Chivayo's saga takes new twist
THE criminal prosecution of Intratrek Zimbabwe managing director Wicknell Chivayo was designed to frustrate him and his company from performing their obligations at the Gwanda Solar Power Project, the...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 12:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chivayo sues ZPC for $25 million
Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo has slapped the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) with a US$25 million lawsuit for bringing up malicious criminal charges of fraud against him and allegedly frustrating ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 16:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo applies for discharge
Wicknell Chivayo has applied for discharge at the close of the state case in the matter in which he is jointly charged with Genius Kadungure for allegedly defrauding Dexter Nduna, Enoch Gatawa and Ivo...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court eases pressure on Chivayo
Pressure has eased on embattled businessman Wicknell Chivayo after High Court bail-judge Benjamin Chikowero observed that the state's case "was weak".This followed a $5 million fraud charge ag...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 16:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt pressures Zesa to pay Chivayo $52m
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration - in many ways carrying over from where toppled former president Robert Mugabe's regime left - has given the green light for Wicknell Chivayo to access a ...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NPF slams parly over Mugabe summon
The National Patriotic Front (NPF) has released a damning letter castigating the ongoing Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy hearing into the alleged missing $15 billion worth of dia...Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldiers beating up people in Ngundu, Chivi - Army general please save our souls
Dear Editor We the Ngundu and Chivi residents are now living in fear. Soldiers driven by Mashapa are asking for shop licences and beating up the mishikashika boys. Those who fail to pr...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 20:38hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
'You want lunch in Dubai!' Chivayo taunt MPs - MPs accepting bribes is accepted gravy train etiquette
"What were MPs expecting to find on a site for a potential solar power station? A triple story 10 bedroomed mansion with a tennis court and a swimming pool?" commented Nicknell Chiyayo, the young bucc...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 20:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
What Chivayo built using $7 million?
The Temba Mliswa let Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy today toured the site of Gwanda Solar Power Project to check on the progress that has been made since the $200 million projec...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 12:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa top officials face chop
GOVERNMENT has ordered a forensic audit into managerial, financial and labour matters at the debt-ridden Zimbabwe Electricity Power Supply Holdings (Zesa), including controversial energy tenders which...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 15:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chivhayo released
Wicknell Chivhayo, the flamboyant businessman known for touting his riches and close ties with former first lady Grace Mugabe, has reportedly been questioned by the authorities over his shady deals wi...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's power tender cancelled?
The Gwanda solar project has been taken over by the Zimbabwe Power Company after Wicknell Chivayo's firm failed to deliver.Energy Minister, Samuel Undenge told parliamentarians in Vic Falls th...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister grilled over Wicknell Chivayo project
LEGISLATORS yesterday took Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Samuel Undenge to task over the $5 million his ministry paid to a local contractor for the Gwanda Solar Power project.Intrat...Published: 11 Nov 2017 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dema power station tender exposes Mugabe's nepotism
The controversy in the awarding of the Dema Diesel Power Station multi-million dollar tender by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to Robert Mugabe's son-in-law is disturbing news of how senior Zanu PF ...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 14:55hrs | | by PDP
Wicknell Chivayo deal brings trouble for ZPC bosses
The Zimbabwe Power Company board has launched investigations into how management unprocedurally made a down payment of $5 million to Wicknell Chivayo for pre-commencement works on the 100 megawatt Gwa...Published: 31 May 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Felex Share
Minister in fresh energy scandal
Energy minister Samuel Undenge is lurching from one scandal to another, this time he neglected or ignored technical and expert advice that the US$194 million a year Dema Diesel Power Plant deal wo...Published: 27 May 2016 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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