adminMoreblessing Taderera (54), who was the signatory to the account, was ordered by BSPZ chairperson Mr Ferdinando Changa to withdraw US$500 as petty cash.
Taderera, it is alleged, withdrew US$7 500 and surrendered US$500 only and converted the remainder to her own use.
She denied the fraud allegations when she appeared before Harare Magistrate Mrs Sandra Mupindu who remanded her to February 7 on US$50 bail.
Appearing for the State, Mr Moffat Makuvatsine alleged that on November 14 last year Changa instructed Taderera to withdraw US$500 from the BSPZ account held at ZB bank.
Taderera, the court heard wrote US$7 500 on an open cheque and misrepresented to the bank authorities that she had been ordered to withdraw that amount.
After the withdrawal, she handed over US$500 to Mr Changa.
The matter came to light when Mr Changa went to the bank to collect a bank statement and noticed that Taderera had withdrawn US$7 500.
He then confronted her and she denied the accusations before admitted later to having withdrawn the money.
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