Judgment on fraud case postponed

HARARE magistrate Francis Mapfumo yesterday postponed to next Monday the sentencing of a 59-year-old Harare woman convicted of fraud after the State counsel informed the court just before the magistrate started to read the sentence that she had a previous conviction.

The woman, Nancy Kutyauripo of Chitungwiza, was convicted on her own plea of guilty to defrauding a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official of $12 000 in a well-orchestrated residential stand scam.

State counsel Sebastian Mutizirwa then told the court of the previous conviction just before Kutyauripo was sentenced.

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