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A Harare magistrate has sentenced a former worker of an unregistered car dealer to 24 months imprisonment for swindling a prospective customer of US$8 450.Wadzanai Sylvia Sondayi (24) appeared before Harare magistrate Vimbai Mugwagwa who slapped her with a two-year jail sentence for the crime.
A total of three months were suspended on condition that Sondayi does not commit a similar offence in five years, 18 months were suspended on condition that she repays the money while the rest were converted to community service at Churchill High School.
Sondayi worked for Nokkingham Investments, an unregistered company run by Irvine Dube, who is on the run.
Her duties entailed attending to customers and receiving money from clients.
On October 10 in 2010, Lovemore Mafurirano, the executive director of a solar energy installations company — Todware Investments — wanted to buy a truck for his business from Nokkingham Investments.
Mafurirano authorised and assigned his subordinate Gibson Mavandudze to buy the truck after getting quotations from Sondayi.
Sondayi and Dube were paid US$8 450 for the truck which they later failed to deliver.
The duo had agreed to deliver the vehicle within two weeks. The two converted the money to their own use and did not deliver the truck as agreed. After failing to get the truck, Mafurirano later reported the matter to the police leading to the arrest of Sondayi.
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