Politician siphoned thousands of dollars by his employees
By Kukizi | self meida writer
Published 24 days ago - 0 views
The Daily News has made a report of a political activist who lost close to US$ 189 000 to his two employees .The two employees are alleged to have siphoned the money from the businessman's fuel business. The name of the businessman is Gerald Mutumanje who is known as Acie Lumumba.
Gerald Mutumanje aka Acie Lumumba
Malcom Dodo and Tatenda Maredza are are the employees who fraudulently siphoned thousands from the businessman and have been formally charged. The two are being charged for the following crimes;
- unlawfully engaging with petroleum production
-theft of property
- fraudulently making transactions
The two were not asked to plead when they made an appearance before the Harare Magistrate Barbra Mateko on Monday. They were scheduled to make an appearance in Court on Tuesday for bail application, even though the state was opposing their bail application.
Some of the illegal activities they committed include the following;
● The Lumumba company(Platinum Fuel) received fuel to the tune of US$244 780 , but the suspects only paid US$212 125, and would not account for the remaining unpaid money.
● At one stage , they received 60 000 litres of diesel to the tune of US$ 61 800 but they sold the fuel and kept the money to themselves.
● They received diesel worth US$96 720 and they did not account for the money as well.
Opera News is a free to use platform and the views and opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not represent, reflect or express the views of Opera News. Any/all written content and images displayed are provided by the blogger/author, appear herein as submitted by the blogger/author and are unedited by Opera News. Opera News does not consent to nor does it condone the posting of any content that violates the rights (including the copyrights) of any third party, nor content that may malign, inter alia, any religion, ethnic group, organization, gender, company, or individual. Opera News furthermore does not condone the use of our platform for the purposes encouraging/endorsing hate speech, violation of human rights and/or utterances of a defamatory nature. If the content contained herein violates any of your rights, including those of copyright, and/or violates any the above mentioned factors, you are requested to immediately notify us using via the following email address operanews-external(at)opera.com and/or report the article using the available reporting functionality built into our Platform
COMMENTS