Son fraudulently sells late dad’s butchery

trying to bribe a lawyer who was the executor of the estate.
Shamiso Vuso (19) this week was not asked to plead when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Don Ndirowei who remanded him out of custody to April 4 on US$100 bail.
He is being charged with fraud.
Shamiso is one of the children of the late Isiah Vuso whose estate is being administered by Mr Gift Nyandoro of Hamunakwadi, Nyandoro and Nyambuya Legal Practitioners.
The estate has not been wound up.
Prosecutor Mrs Svodai Kadivirire alleges that sometime in January this year, Shamiso acting on his own instructed Lightvale Real Estate to advertise the sale of a butchery in Machipisa, Highfield, which is one of the properties under the estate.
In February this year, it is alleged, a person known as Simba of Lightvale Real Estate contacted Shamiso telling him that he had found a buyer for the property.
CAG Holdings represented by Mr Best Mugida the complainant arranged that the sale be done through Lightvale.
Shamiso charged US$58 000 and the complainant paid him US$30 000, it is alleged.
The balance was allegedly to be paid when Shamiso changed ownership to the buyer’s name.
Shamiso allegedly approached the executor with an offer of US$5 000 so that he could assist him change of ownership.
The lawyer realised that the teenager had sold a property under his executorship and he alerted the police, says the State.
This led to the arrest of Shamiso.