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Fidelis Munyoro
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke and suspended Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society chief executive officer Everisto Rukasha on allegations of swindling the local council US$400 000.
They are expected to appear in court this afternoon charged with fraud.
It is alleged that in March last year, Kereke and Rukasha connived to swindle HMMAS and entered into a fraudulent acknowledgement that the council medical aid society was owing Kereke US$400 000 involving the sale of his Fortress hospital in Ruwa.
HMMAS bought the hospital in 2014 and paid US$800 000 in full.
Kereke who served an effective 10-year jail term for raping a juvenile relative at gunpoint was freed from prison in August 2021 on $500 000 bail, coupled with stiff conditions by the Supreme Court, pending his appeal against both the conviction and the sentence.
Kereke, who was convicted of rape in July 2016, had 20 months to go before he was due for release after time off for good behaviour when he got the greenlight to prosecute his appeal out of custody.
Online Reporter