admindeath before taking over his hospital while he was in hiding.
Annesley (44) was not formally charged when he appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Anita Tshuma who remanded him out of custody to March 9 on US$1 000 bail. He was ordered to surrender his passport and report twice a week at Highlands Police Station.
In 2001 Dr Solanki registered his company Autoband Investments (Pvt) Ltd to operate the Trauma Centre.
Dr Solanki appointed Paul Stevenson and Mavis Mushonga as directors of the company. Stevenson resigned in 2009 and was replaced by Zarina Dudhia who was appointed as general manager and sole signatory to the company’s bank accounts.
In 2008, Dr Solanki registered a company VIP Health Care in Mauritius to build clinics around Africa. In South Africa, it is alleged, he met Andrew Groves and Phil Edmonds who were his former patients at his Johannesburg Airport Clinic.
The pair introduced themselves as owners of AMI, a UK based company.
The AMI directors allegedly offered to merge with the businesses and assist in building hospitals and clinics in Africa.
The State says in the agreement Groves and Edmonds offered to pay Dr Solanki 5 million British pounds and 24 million shares in AMI.
Dr Solanki accepted the proposal and an agreement was signed. Following the agreement, it is alleged, hospitals were built in South Africa, Tanzania and Mozambique.
The AMI directors, the State says, agreed that they would buy Dr Solanki’s Johannesburg Airport Clinic and the Harare Trauma Centre separately. But the agreement did not materialise. The State says Dr Solanki bought land to build the Trauma Centre and registered it under one of his companies Stremleigh Investments.
The State says Dr Solanki’s relationship with the AMI directors broke down after the latter failed to pay the 5 million British pounds and the 24 million shares. It is alleged that this resulted in the AMI directors trying to oust Dr Solanki from the Trauma Centre Harare.
The AMI directors allegedly incited Annesley and his alleged accomplices Jeremy Sanford, Paul Stevenson and Mavis Mushonga who have already appeared in court and others still at large to threaten Dr Solanki, his family and his management with death.
On November 5, 2010 Annesley connived with his accomplices and misrepresented to the registrar of companies that Dr Solanki appointed director and manager had resigned from Streamsleigh Investments and that Sanford and Annesley had been appointed directors. The State says when they did that they did not have Dr Solanki’s authority.
As a result they fraudulently acquired a CR 14 form to take over Dr Solanki’s company and assets valued at US$10 million.
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