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THREE former workers at KoMpofu La Sports Bar owned by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Cde Obert Mpofu in Victoria Fall appeared in court facing theft charges.
Costa Ngwenya, Raphael Tasiso and Biggie Ndlovu, all residing in Chinotimba Township, are being separately charged with theft after they allegedly stole different amounts of money at the bar.
Victoria Falls resident magistrate Sharon Rosemani was told that the trio was fired from work soon after the discovery of the theft on March 31, this year.
Ngwenya, whose age was not given, is accused of stealing $286 Tasiso, 30, $87 and Ndlovu, 44, $515.
The three pleaded not guilty to theft and were remanded out of custody to May 28.
Prosecuting, Onias Nyathi said on March 31, the sports bar supervisor Charles Zvikomo was conducting a stock take when he discovered that some money was missing.
He said investigations revealed that the shortfall was linked to the trio who admitted to having stolen the money and promised to repay it at the end of April.
A report was made to the police when the three failed to pay the money as agreed.
Meanwhile, an assistant guest manager at Adventures Lodge, Pamela Samera, has been found guilty of defrauding her employer of $878 after it was discovered that she converted bookings money into her own use.
Samera, 34, of 1110 Aerodrome in Victoria Falls, would enter transactions into her personal receipt book and altered figures into the company book.
She was convicted on her own plea and sentenced to four months in prison which were wholly suspended on condition she restitutes the money before the end of this month.
Samera, who has since been fired, paid $300 in court.
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