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H-Metro Reporter
THE post-mortem of businessman, Amos Kagona, was finally held yesterday and he is now expected to be laid to rest in Bindura today.
The post-mortem results are expected to help police investigations to establish the real cause of his death in Harare last week.
Kagona, widely known as Chidhedhedhe, was reported to have shot himself dead at the house of fellow businessman, Felix Munyaradzi, last Tuesday.
His death came just hours before he was set to appear in court on US$3 million fraud charges.
Munyaradzi is the complainant in the case.
A few hours later, his accomplices, Jacob Muyambo and Mutakura, were convicted of the fraud charges by magistrate Stanford Mambanje and are now expected to be sentenced next week.
Kagona walked from his house in Ashdown Park to Borrowdale West on the day of the tragedy.
Some of his friends told H-Metro this week they were concerned he might not have pulled the trigger, which killed him.
It is the State’s case that from August 2015 to March 2018 Muyambo, Kagona and Mutakura teamed up and defrauded Delatfin Civil Engineering.
The State alleges that Kagona and Mutakura posed as car suppliers to Munyaradzi, the Delatfin chief executive.
It is alleged that they started selling commonage stands allocated to the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing by Delatfin.
After the sale of the stands, Kudakwashe Wasara would allegedly prepare fake agreements of sale purporting that the stands in question would have been sold with Muyambo, in his capacity as the finance manager, approving the sale and indicating that Kagona and Mutakura had paid.
The land stolen is said to be valued at US$3 350 865.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter