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Yeukai Karengezeka
Court Correspondent
The trial of local businessman, Neville Mutsvangwa, who is facing allegations of possessing a star link router without a licence has been set for November 21.
He is charged for contravening the Telecommunications Act and he appeared before Harare magistrate, Ruth Moyo on Monday.
Mutsvangwa is also set to be indicted to the High Court on December 4 in a case where he is jointly charged with two other accomplices Simbarashe Tichingana and Elis Majachani.
The trio is facing charges of contravening the Exchange Control Act, that is dealing in currency ,unlawful trading in cash and money.
The trial will be heard before a different court.
The State is alleging that in May this year police made investigations and found out that Mumba Money Transfer, an unregistered company owned and founded by Mutsvangwa, was offering services as a money transfer agent at their offices in town and in Mt Pleasant where he resides.
The detectives visited Mutsvangwa at his house where he reportedly refused to give them entry.
His accomplice, Tichingana, came to the scene and pretended to be a neighbour and when his phone was searched it showed that it contained some transactions pertaining to Mumba Money leading to his arrest.
The other team of detectives visited the Mumba Money Transfer Office in town where Majachani was serving clients.
The police recovered cash US$3890 , some computers, a register of the transaction , Visa cards among other things.
Bongani Ndlovu