Tanyanyiwa removed from house arrest

Ms Anita Tshuma who placed him under house arrest.
He was also ordered to surrender his passport, not to interfere with witnesses and to stay at his Mt Pleasant house.
Under the bail conditions, Tanyanyiwa would only leave his house when reporting to Avondale Police Station or when going to court and was required to use the shortest possible routes to the police station and court.
However, his lawyer Mr Admire Rubaya yesterday made an application seeking the relaxation of the bail conditions, which was granted by Mr Shane Kubonera after prosecutor Mr David Magwegwe consented.
Tanyanyiwa will now report once a week at Avondale Police Station.
On the first fraud case, the State says Tanyanyiwa, well knowing that he had no money to buy a house, hatched a plan to defraud Chitungwiza Municipality and took US$165 000 from council to buy a house in Chisipite.
On charges of corruptly concealing a personal interest in a transaction from a principal, the State says during the period extending from September to December last year Tanyanyiwa allegedly offered the Chisipite house through his estate agent for rental to Chitungwiza director of urban planning, Mr Conrad Muchesa.
It is alleged Tanyanyiwa, with the intention to deceive, did not disclose his personal interest in the house to his principal (Chitungwiza Municipality) and council ended up paying him US$1 300 per month for five months as rental for his property.
As a result, council suffered a prejudice of US$6 500.
The town clerk is also accused of criminal abuse of duty after he allegedly corruptly acquired three commercial stands using names of three different shelf companies.
He reportedly prejudiced his employer of US$170 000 when he allegedly diverted money meant to buy three Toyota Fortuners for other senior officials to buy his Toyota Land Cruiser V8 for US$170 000.
During the period extending from September to December last year on 50 different occasions, Tanyanyiwa is accused of corruptly authorising cash payments amounting to U$337 253 to himself and other top officials.