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Prosper Dembedza
Herald Correspondent
FOUR people have appeared in court on allegations of duping an unsuspecting complainant of R625 100 in a botched cash transfer deal.
Linda Moyo (38), Learnmore Jonga (32), Micheal Garikai Mukushu (39), who is a director at Devpact Energy, and Nodrax Chikwama (29), a director at Artemis Medicals, were facing fraud charges when they appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje.
They were remanded on $100 000 bail each.
The court heard that on February 16, Moyo approached the complainant whom she knew before and misrepresented to him that her accomplices were looking for someone who could make a payment to South Africa on their behalf equivalent to US$45 197 cash which they were going to give him.
It is the State’s case that they further misrepresented that the payment was for the purchase of a motor vehicle.
The complainant was interested in the deal and indicated to Moyo that he could only transfer R625 100 which translated to US$35 510 and her accomplices then gave the complainant an FNB account number 62873854791 allegedly in the names of Prime Auto which they claimed was a motor vehicle company. The court heard that the complainant transferred R625 100 from his FNB account number 63012622139 which was equivalent to US$35 510.
The accused persons confirmed to the complainant through Moyo that Prime Auto Company had received the R625 100.
When the complainant approached the accused to collect the US$35 510, they became evasive.
A report was made leading to their arrest.
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