Cross-border traders lose US$8 000 to travel company

Mudumi (39), the director of Happy travellers Pvt Ltd approached the association’s president Mr Killer Zivhu and indicated she wanted to offer a fly now-pay later facility to cross border traders.
She was given an advance payment of US$8 100 for tickets by the association, which she later failed to account for.
Mudumi denied the allegations when she appeared before Magistrate Ms Barbra Mashire who remanded her out of custody to May 20 on US$100 bail.
She was given a longer remand period to allow a matter which is before the same courts in which she is the complainant and Mr Zivhu the accused to be finalised.
Prosecutor Ms Francesca Mukumbiri alleged that sometime in June last year, Mudumi approached Mr Zivhu at his offices and indicated that she wanted to offer a fly now-pay later facility to cross border traders in Harare and Gweru.
Mr Zivhu, it is alleged, arranged a meeting with the traders and Mudimu who was also present explained to them how the scheme was supposed to work.
The traders later made payments to the complainant for a trip.
On July 7, Mudumi was given US$5 000 by the association’s president as an advance payment.  She again collected US$3 491 on July 29 and a further US$433 on July 30. 
The court heard that on August 2, Mudumi sent her secretary Rumbidzai Shumbambiri to collect US$700 from Mr Zivhu’s office, it is alleged. It is further alleged that the traders later cancelled the trip and ordered Mudumi to keep the money in trust since it was not enough to purchase tickets.
They later told her to payback the money and she failed to account for it.
A police report was made leading to Mudumi’s arrest.