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Yeukai Karengezeka, Court Correspondent
A SUSPECTED fraudster, Tawanda Denford Bondamakara, who has three pending cases, is back again in court with fresh charges of allegedly duping his mother-in-law of a car.
Bondamakara (40), who is represented by lawyer Ms Devoted Nyagano, appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi charged with theft of trust property.
She applied for bail on his behalf and ruling will be made today.
Prosecutor Mr Thomas Chanakira alleged that sometime in March this year, the complainant Mrs Rebecca Kashaya, gave Bondamakara a silver Volvo XC60 to obtain a fair value of the car.
She allowed him to move around with the car without giving him a registration book or any other documentation relating to the vehicle.
After two weeks, Bondamakara confirmed that he had a found a buyer who wanted to pay US$10 000.
He was advised by Mrs Kashaya to return the vehicle as well as to bring the buyer to her, but he became evasive.
This led her to file a report with the police, which led to his arrest on August 21.
Last month, Bondamakara appeared in court for allegedly defrauding two home-seekers about US$190 000 on separate occasions after luring them to pay for three stands and five hectares of land.
The complainants are Mrs Catherine Masaka, a pensioner and Mrs Patricia Imbeah Kissi.
Bondamakara has two more fraud charges involving vehicles, whose complainants are Blessing Chiroodza and Fadwick Thomas.
He is out on bail for all the cases.
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