Courts and Crime

Zimbabwe’s primary maize seed manufacturer, Seed Co, is warning farmers that counterfeit maize seed bearing the company’s name is being sold countrywide. The company has now sought help from the police to identify individuals behind the scam, and shops that are selling the fake seed. In a statement on Monday, …

By Daniel Kachere Police have swiftly springed to action solving the current mystery surrounding shocking murders of street urchins in Harare that were believed to be ritual killings by some sections of the public, Nhau/Indaba has confirmed. A statement from National Police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyati relates that Thandwenkosi …

Zhao Jiaotong, the suspected kingpin in the infamous E-Creator Ponzi scheme saga, appeared before a Harare magistrate on Friday facing fraud amounting to US$1 million. Jiaotong, 39, was also slapped with money laundering charges. Prosecutors said the Chinese national fleeced unsuspecting clients through operating a fake investment project. Jiaotong appeared …

Police have arrested a fugitive Chinese fraudster, Zhao Jiaotong, the director of E-Creator, a Ponzi scheme that left several Zimbabweans screaming after duping them of varying amounts of hard cash invested in his enterprise. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed his arrest Thursday. Duped individuals and corporates have …

Saviour Kasukuwere will “fight to the bitter end” to stop his name being removed from presidential candidates for the August 23 election, aides said on Wednesday after he launched an appeal against a High Court decision to disqualify him on the basis that he had been out of the country …

High Court Judge, Justice Munamato Mutevedzi has sentenced Tapiwa Makore’s killers to death following their conviction for the crime of murder after a full trial. Tapiwa Makore Senior (60), connived to murder his seven-year-old nephew with his herd boy Tafadzwa Shamba (40) on the night of September 17, 2020 in …

Zanu PF aspiring MP for Bikita South Energy Mutodi stormed the venue of a Citizens Coalition for Change rally and discharged his gun, according to a police complaint filed by his rival John Mupanduki. The incident happened at Baradzanwa BIC in Bikita on July 6, according to the police report …

The family of a 15-year-old rape victim is threatening legal action after her rapist, 59, was released on amnesty by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Bobby Makaza was sentenced to an effective 16 years in prison by a Murewa court in 2019 over the sex attack on the teenager a year previously. …

Two Chinese nationals were robbed of US$100,000 cash and a handgun after six men stormed their residence in Harare’s Greendale suburb last Friday, police said. Wang Zhou and Feng Zhou, the victims of the attack, reportedly have interests in mining. Police have been told that the huge amount of cash …

Agency Gumbo, a lawyer and CCC official, told the media that it was now time for the regional and international community to step in as the electoral playing field was uneven and favouring Zanu PF and its candidates. “We are at the World Cup, but all our feet are being …