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THE Industrial Development Corporation of Zimbabwe legal manager appeared in court charged with obstruction of justice and forgery.
Ropafadzo Kunze 35, was not asked to plead when he appeared before magistrate, Dennis Mangosi, who released him on $100 000 bail
Allegations are that in January, the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission received a number of cases reported against the IDCZ top management.
A team was set up to investigate the allegations.
One of the allegations included violation of tender procedures in the procurement of two service vehicles for the acting general manager Edward Tome.
As part of the investigation ZACC wrote a letter to the Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) requesting a statement of procedure, and a comment, on whether IDCZ followed the stipulated procurement procedures when they purchased the two vehicles.
???On February 10, PRAZ wrote a letter to IDCZ Acting General Manager requesting for the procurement records of the two vehicles.
Kunze, in his capacity as the legal manager, was then tasked to respond to the PRAZ request and to avail the procurement records of the two vehicles.
This was despite the fact that the response was supposed to have been done through Sunway City, a subsidiary of IDCZ, which is the procuring entity for IDCZ on goods and services which require tendering processes.
The State alleged that on February 14, Kunze without the knowledge and consent of Collin Mutingwende, the CEO of Sunway City (Pvt) Limited drafted a letter with a Sunway City letter head and extracted an electronic signature for Collin Mutingwende.
He then pasted it on the signature block of the document which he generated.
The forged the document gave an impression that it had been generated by Colin Mutingwende when this was not the case.
Kunze allegedly ordered the Procurement Manager, Vimbiso Chikwereti, to deliver the forged letter, together with the procurement records for the two vehicles, to PRAZ.
Kunze allegedly also lied in the letter that the cars were not service vehicles but belonged to IDCZ, exonerating the acting general manager from liability.
The offence was unearthed during investigations leading to his arrest.
Zebediah Bofu prosecuted.
Online Reporter