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Harare lawyer Ms Beatrice Mtetwa who is representing the accused Peter Annesley and Mavis Mushonga said the hospital property belonged to African Medical Investments (AMI) as such Solanki was not entitled to claim ownership of it.
Dr Solanki argued that he owned the property since it was registered under his company, Autoband Investment and that AMI was not a registered company in the country.
He produced an agreement which he signed between himself and two former directors of AMI where they entered into an agreement separate from the main agreement for the purchase of Trauma centre.
He added that some of the equipment alleged to have been bought by AMI was actually payment by the two directors to him in their personal capacities.
The two owed Dr Solanki some cash.
Mtetwa, however, argued that according to that side agreement signed by Solanki and the directors of AMI, it provided that if the agreement was to be terminated at any given time the hospital property would remain the property of the purchaser.
She also added that Dr Solanki by entering into a side agreement with the two directors, he was actually stealing from AMI shareholders.
However, Dr Solanki said that due to the illegal nature of this agreement he reported the two directors to the regulatory authority in London and that they have since been fired.
The doctor also told regional magistrate Clever Tsikwa that he was the major shareholder in AMI and that following the dismissal of former directors Andrew Grooves and Philip Edmund, he was approached by shareholders in Britain to take up his former post in AMI.
Ms Mtetwa also accused Dr Solanki of stealing a Toyota Prado which was listed as part of property stolen at the Hospital by AMI employees after seizing the institution in July 2011.
Mtetwa claimed the vehicle, which was valued US$50 000 in court papers, was allegedly stolen in Borrowdale outside Butcher’s Kitchen an assertion dismissed by Solanki.
Solanki maintained one of the accused persons, Annesley, was illegally using the stolen vehicle but Mtetwa disproved his claims by producing a letter of authority from one Kirsten Coy authorising Annesley to use the car.
Mtetwa asked Solanki why he was claiming ownership of the property yet he had no proof to support his claims to which he replied: “Evidence was stolen by the accused persons during the ‘jambanja’ and I am saying the accountant should be in possession of some of it.”
The matter was deffered to March 11 for continuation to trial and the other accused person, Paul Stevenson, is represented by Innocent Musimbe while the State is represented by Mr Michael Reza.
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