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Cop nabbed for receiving money to influence magistrate, prosecutor
Desmond Chingarande ·
A POLICE officer based in Ruwa has appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing criminal abuse of office charges after he allegedly received money meant to influence the magistrate to deny bail to a Harare man who had been accused of theft of trust property.
The accused, James Mugumbati, was on Friday remanded out of custody on $10 000 bail to August 26.
It is the State’s case that in March last year, Mugumbati, who is attached to the Suburban Police Intelligence Crack team, met Kelvin Mutasa, who had been conned of US$20 000 which he intended to pay for a commercial stand at Juru Growth Point.
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