adminRushwaya is facing 11 counts of corruptly concealing a transaction from a principal, two counts of fraud and 15 counts of bribery involving $1 million.
She was released on $500 bail with the consent of the Attorney General’s Office.
Rushwaya was ordered to report to the police once every fortnight and to surrender her passport to the Clerk of Court pending finalisation of the matter.
The prosecution failed to name the 104 State witnesses who will testify thus rendering conditions barring Rushwaya from interfering with witnesses irrelevant.
Defence counsel Mr Dumisani Mthombeni had asked the State to supply witnesses’ names.
“My client is in a predicament. She does not know who the witnesses are because the national team or Monomotapa Football Club are not people’s names.
“The State should supply names so that she will not risk further arrest by breaching bail conditions,” he said.
However, magistrate Anita Tshuma ordered Rushwaya not to interfere with the investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Mthombeni notified the court of his client’s intention to challenge placement on remand on 20 February.
Prosecutor Tapiwa Kasema alleges that Rushwaya as an agent of Zifa connived with former programmes officer Jonathan Musavengana and Asian betting syndicate leader Raja Perumal and unlawfully authorised the national soccer team and Monomotapa FC to attend international sporting tours.
They allegedly arranged that the full nature of transactions would not be disclosed to the Zifa Board and the Sports and Recreation Commission.
It is alleged Perumal funded the trips for participants during tours to Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Oman, Jordan, Bulgaria, China, Thailand and Yemen.
Rushwaya, between 2007 and 2009, allegedly engaged match officials, players, technical staff and media personnel in respect of all the 15 international games played and received $1 million to throw away matches.
According to the State, witnesses will state that they received clear instructions to concede goals at given intervals.
On the two counts of fraud, Rushwaya in July 2009, allegedly arranged matches between the senior national football team, the Warriors and the Malaysian national team, which were not approved by the Zifa board.
All expenses for the trip were allegedly paid in Malaysia.
It is alleged Rushwaya, with the intention to defraud Zifa and the SRC sent Monomotapa FC to Malaysia misrepresenting that it was the national side.
The fake Warriors team played two matches in Malaysia.
The State will present to the courts correspondences between Rushwaya and foreign football associations, correspondence with Perumal, the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe manifesto showing her travels with the teams, documents she wrote to her subordinates and witnesses’ statements including players and match officials.
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