Mukandi challenges 14-year-old trial

FORMER Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director-general Lovemore Mukandi and his three alleged accomplices in a 14-year-old fraud case yesterday appeared before the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenging their criminal prosecution and seeking the court to order permanent stay of prosecution.

SENIOR COURT REPORTER

The former top spy boss and his co-appellants, Nelson Silvern Yeukai Mawere-Mubvumbi, David Nyabondo and Mohammed Ahmed Meman were arrested and charged with fraud in 1996, but were removed from remand in 2000 after their trial failed to take place.

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