Courts and Crime

Staff Writer Companies in the business of manufacturing blankets are feeling the heat emanating from the soaring smuggling reportedly run by cartels at the country’s border posts. It has also emerged that those in the business of manufacturing groceries are crying foul as the cartels bring in cheaper goods manufactured …

HARARE – A lone armed robber who stole US$36,000 from a Harare home used US$10,000 to pay lobola for his wife, a court heard on Monday. For several months, Aaron Franscico Machona, 37, terrorised residents of Waterfalls in Harare – including shooting a woman in the head in front of …

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has described penalties meted out to those found guilty of corruption as too lenient and a major hindrance to the country’s anti-corruption drive. Addressing a capacity-building workshop on corruption organised by the African Parliamentary Network against Corruption (APNAC) in Bulawayo last week, Mudenda …

Constance Chioma calls her son every morning to check that he is safe while studying in northeast Nigeria, a region plagued by deadly attacks by insurgents and armed kidnappings. Earlier this month, she could not get through. She later realised her SIM card was one of about 73 million – …

JOHANNESBURG: Seven men have appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday afternoon in connection with the murder of Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi. “We can confirm, as the National Prosecuting Authority [NPA], that a group of seven men appeared in court in relation to the murder of Elvis Nyathi,” NPA …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife Marry Mubaiwa  who was convicted on Wednesday for violating the Marriages Act after lying that her former husband had consented to solemnise their wedding while he was receiving medical care in India has been sentenced to one year imprisonment. She however escaped a custodial sentence …

The former head of a Swiss bank has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail for charges including fraud. The court in Zurich heard that Pierin Vincenz, 65, had used his company credit card to pay for strip clubs, Tinder dates, holidays and dinners. Public interest in the case …

By Purity Marungisa Embattled Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has quickly leaped to defend its failure to avail financial records requested by the Auditor General Mildred Chisi, blaming the impasse on legacy issues at the establishment. In a statement from spokesperson Commissioner John Makamure seen by Nhau, the corruption watchdog acknowledged …

IN a dramatic irony, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has failed to properly account for millions of United States dollars which could have been misappropriated as its accounting books have remained in a shambles for a decade – since 2012. Chiri warns the risk of fraud …

A TOTAL of 23 senior and junior managers plus 140 general workers have quit Vumbachikwe Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, within the past two months. According to an internal memo seen by Chronicle, the resignations started soon after the company instituted investigations on February 7 following the discovery of …