Online Reporter
Thupeyo Muleya
Beitbridge Bureau
THE Zimbabwe Insurance Crimes Bureau (ZICB), working in collaboration with police detectives from CID Beitbridge, has arrested two men believed to be part of the many syndicates facilitating the movement of goods through Beitbridge Border Post using forged documents.
ZICB is an investigating unit operating under the Insurance Council of Zimbabwe, which has already deployed manpower to work with security agencies to verify the authenticity of some insurance-related documents originating from Beitbridge.
Hopewell and Phillip Ndlovu, both from Beitbridge, are expected to appear in court on Wednesday, facing charges of forgery, fraud, possession of articles to commit a crime and contravening a section of the Immigration Act.
A source close to the investigations said they received information about the two men’s activities and laid a trap for them.
The duo was running an office in Beitbridge town.
“Information obtained from the ground revealed that the two men were printing and distributing fake Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) yellow insurance cards and converting the proceeds to their own use,” said the source.
“We also found them in possession of articles for criminal use which include blank Comesa yellow cards; blank- fake and original birth and death certificates; several Central Vehicle Registry blank driver’s licenses; a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) receipt book and several passports, four erased Zimbabwe Defensive license certificates, South African motor registration books including blank copies of SA registration books, a laptop, five printers, a laminating machine and a price label gun among other things,” said the source.
