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A SUSPECTED illegal foreign currency dealer appeared in court last week on allegations of separately conning two people of US$690 and $4 million in Harare’s city centre.
Tonderai Gift Ndenda appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with fraud.
He was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi, who remanded him to January 12 on $100 000 bail.
The State led by Mr Pardon Dziva alleges that on September 11, 2022 at around 1945hrs Michael Mandofa approached Ndenda at the corner of Park Street and Kwame Nkrumah Avenue in the capital.
Mandofa needed South African rands in exchange of US dollars.
He then gave Ndenda US$693 and was expecting R12 600.
The court heard that Ndenda then gave Mandofa $3 000 covered with R200 notes and allegedly drove from the scene.
On the following day, Ndenda met Munyaradzi Dera, who was looking for United States dollars, around Copacabana area.
He then transferred $4 million into Ndenda’s CBZ account in exchange for US$4 500.
After Dera had transferred the money, he approached Ndenda and his accomplice to get the forex, but he told him that he needed to confirm if the money had reflected in his account.
Ndenda then allegedly disappeared from the scene and efforts to locate him on the day in question were fruitless.
He was only apprehended after some days and was subsequently taken to court where he was charged with fraud.
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