Courts and Crime

Jurors have found R&B singer R. Kelly guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, along with separate charges of sex trafficking. In this federal case in the Eastern District of New York, Kelly faced a total of nine counts — one count of racketeering, with 14 …

A Chitungwiza man has been arrested on allegations of fatally assaulting his 19-year-old niece on allegations of spending four days away from home, as murder cases continue to increase countrywide. The suspect Epharaige Charamba (23) is alleged to have assaulted his niece, Winnet Charamba (19) to death with a leather …

Stakeholders in the fight and prevention of intimate partner and gender based violence (GBV) from around Mashonaland Central province converged in Domboshawa last week to map a way forward towards eradicating the practice in Shamva district. GBV has been identified as rampant in Shamva compared to other districts across the …

Award-winning journalist Hopewell Chin’ono is being sued for defamation to the tune of US$100 000 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s lawyer Tinomudaishe Chinyoka. Chinyoka is claiming that the journalist defamed him after he made some Twitter and Facebook posts claiming that he was ignorant. The alleged damaging tweet was made on …

Several non-commissioned police officers have been transferred with immediate effect from Matapi Police Station in Mbare, Nhau has learnt. The transfers are reportedly a consequence of an “operation gone wrong” targeting over a thousand second-hand clothing bales smuggled into the station’s jurisdiction. The station is also under the spotlight for …

A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain’s biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to pay between $300,000 and $500,000 to Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party in 2013. The documents also reveal …

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been dragged in the arrest of Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution in Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira, earlier this week. The NewsHawks reports that this was revealed by a pro-Emmerson Mnangagwa faction which is blaming Chiwenga for intensifying efforts to topple the President. Chadzamira …

A Chinhoyi magistrate on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Mugabe family against a traditional court ruling ordering the exhumation of the former president Robert Mugabe’s remains. Chief Zvimba early this year ruled that Mugabe’s remains must be exhumed from his rural homestead where he was buried for reburial at …

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has instituted legal processes to seize properties valued at US$6,5 million (ZW$75 581 395) owned by Zimbabweans in the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland. To recover the properties suspected …

The High Court has blocked the release by Zimra of vehicles imported by 53 people as it is suspected they were brought into the country using fake import licences in what is a far-reaching swathe of sneaky dealings in the vehicle import business. Zimra is holding a large batch of …