Man swindled of US$79 734

to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Donald Ndirowei on fraud charges on Monday.
He was remanded out of custody on US$300 bail.
Makombe was ordered to surrender his passport and continue living at his given address.
He was also ordered not to interfere with witnesses.
Prosecutor Joyce Sithole alleges that the unnamed businessman sells hardware products he imports from China and India.
It is the State’s case that in June last year he made an agreement with Makombe to be his clearing agent at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority.
The court heard that each time Makombe cleared the businessman’s containers, he would inflate the Zimra charges and sign the man’s invoices as acknowledgment of receipt of the money.
The matter surfaced in May this year when the man went to Zimra where he obtained a statement of his account.
It is further alleged that he discovered that in all the 54 containers he cleared, Makombe had inflated Zimra charges that resulted him in suffering a prejudice of US$79 134.
The businessman reported the case and police arrested Makombe.