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The four in their defence said a South Africa supplier had given authority to deposit the money in question into a Zimbabwean company which they alleged was an agent of the SA supplier.
However prosecutor Mr Sidom Chinzete argued that the email was fake.
Mr Harrison Nkomo had sought for the engagement of information technology experts to inspect the servers to see if the disputed email passed through the Delta servers.
However Mr Chinzete opposed the application arguing that an IT expert should be called instead to give evidence in court.
Presiding magistrate Mr Noel Mupeiwa ruled in favour of the State and dismissed the defence application.
The trial continues on June 11.
The State alleges that on September 16 2009, Mazengeza connived with Sachiti, Ndachena and Munjwana to defraud the company.
Sachiti and Ndachena communicated with a South African company AFCL (Pty) Ltd, owned by Nkosana Moyo, to be supplied with Coca-Cola branded glasses, the court heard.
Moyo allegedly sent a quotation which Mazengeza and Ndachena signed.
It is alleged that Mazengeza authorised a fraudulent transfer of US$60 000 to a company called Silver Cloud owned by Stanslas Matare.
On October 7, Mazengeza allegedly approved further deposits of US$30 000 apiece into Sachiti, Munjwana and AFCL’s bank accounts.
It is alleged that promotional materials were repeatedly sold to Delta through Matare’s company and Nyasha Sachiti who is still at large.
On November 6 2009 Mazengeza allegedly caused a further transfer of US$30 000 into AFCL’s account.
In a bid to cover-up the offence, Mazengeza allegedly made a fictitious e-mail purporting to have been sent by Moyo to Delta giving them instructions to make the transfers into an agent’s company account (Silver Cloud) in Zimbabwe.
Investigations conducted by detectives established that Moyo disowned the e-mail that was allegedly sent to Delta.
A total of R150 000 was recovered.
Online Reporter