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Auxilia Katongomara Chronicle Reporter
BULAWAYO businessman and car dealer, Dumisani Mutorera, who allegedly duped city socialite Mike Marata in a car deal, appeared in court on Saturday.
Detectives from the fraud section arrested Mutorera, 44, of Romney Park suburb on Friday at the Joshua Mqabuko International Airport just after his arrival from South Africa.
Mutorera, who is facing fraud charges, was not asked to plead when he appeared before provincial magistrate, Sithembiso Ncube.
He was remanded to August 12 on free bail.
Prosecuting, Malvern Nzombe told the court that on May 8 this year, Mutorera sold a non-runner Mercedes Benz C180, to Marata for $9,500 as a runner.
“Mutorera told Marata that the vehicle was at Manica Freight in Beitbridge awaiting clearance,” Nzombe told the court.
The court heard that the two agreed that Marata was going to clear and collect the motor vehicle.
“On July 15, Marata went to Manica Freight, Beitbridge intending to collect the motor vehicle and discovered that the motor vehicle in question was a non-runner with no ignition keys and some engine parts missing.
The motor vehicle was a non-runner from Durban where it was bought and was accompanied with a form indicating defects of the motor vehicle,” Nzombe said.
Mutorera is being represented by Shepherd Chamunorwa of Calderwood, Bryce Hendrie and Partners and Byron Sengweni of Mcijo Dube and partners.
Mutorera runs Club Forty40 and ChyCry Trading which sells cars on commission.
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