adminafter the court denied him bail.
Harare magistrate Mr Donald Ndirowei said Mawere was not suitable for bail because he was facing four counts of fraud.
He also noted that Mawere had a propensity to commit similar offences since he was arrested while on bail on another fraud matter. Mr Ndirowei remanded Mawere in custody to May 20.
Prosecutor Miss Junior Mugebe opposed bail arguing the State had a strong case against Mawere.
“The investigating officer recovered all the fake orders generated by the accused and there is a strong link between him and the fake orders,” she said.
“When the accused person was arrested, he had an outstanding warrant of arrest which he cancelled last week Friday, if he had not been arrested he would not have cancelled it.
“Due to his conduct, accused cannot be trusted and is likely to abscond trial if granted bail,” she said.
Through his lawyer, Mr Benjamin Chidenga of James Makiya Legal Practitioners, Mawere argued that he was a proper candidate for bail.
He said he was still innocent until proven guilty. The State alleges that in July 2008, Mawere was approached by Ms Chikukwa who was working in Australia.
She wanted a divorce and custody order for her child to be able to take her to Australia.
Mawere, it is alleged, demanded R800 for processing of an interim order and an additional R2 500 for the divorce application and Ms Chikukwa paid in full.
The lawyer, who was deregistered in 2010, is alleged to have generated a fake custody order, which he sent via e-mail to Ms Chikukwa and as a result she suffered a prejudice of R3 300 and nothing was recovered. The complainant in the other matter is Mr Shelton
Mahuni, a partner in Mahuni and Matutu Attorneys. On April 25 Mr Mahuni received information that his law firm was issuing out fake court orders.
After inquiries Mr Mahuni discovered that Mawere was the one who had misrepresented to a Kadoma miner, Mr Munyaradzi Bidi, and went on to produce a fake court order purportedly issued at the High Court of Zimbabwe by Justice Joseph Musakwa.
Through Mawere’s actions, the State says Mr Bidi was made to pay for services believing that he was a genuine lawyer.
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