CHINESE businessman Haozuan Song has been detained at Harare Remand Prison awaiting possible deportation over an unspecified offence ,while his mother and controversial businesswoman Li Song is being sought by the Department of Immigration.
Li faces several criminal allegations that include externalization, defrauding tax authorities and theft of trust property.
Her son has filed an urgent application at the High Court seeking to block his deportation to China. In his application, he has cited the chief director of immigration and the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Affairs as respondents, accusing them of threatening to deport him without a court order.
He also argues that the deportation is being done without affording him a chance to challenge the decision.
"Respondents have detained the applicant and threatened to deport without following due process and without a court order. The respondents’ conduct breaches the applicant’s constitutional right to liberty and not to be arbitrarily deported without being afforded the chance to challenge the decision to deport him as provided for in terms of Consttution of Zimbabwe," Haozuan argues through his lawyer Oliver Marwa.
The Chinese national is also seeking the court to issue a declaratory order on the validity of the detention and threats of deportation.
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The application is pending.
His mother is expected to appear in court on September 25 for trial on an allegation that she externalised more than US$6 million to an offshore Mauritian bank account after falsifying documents to get forex at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s forex auction system.
She is also facing allegations of fraudulently avoiding paying US$40 000 customs duty after importing sodium cyanide from Mauritius sometime last year.