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| Zimbabwe: Professor Jonathan Moyo Arrested | |
| 2016-11-04 | |
[All Africa] Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo was yesterday tossed in the clinkDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for alleged abuse of office and misappropriating over $400 000 Zim-bob-we Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) funds.
Zimdef is a parastatal that falls under Prof Moyo's portfolio. The minister presented himself to the Zim-bob-we Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) head office in Mt Pleasant, Harare, where a warned and cautioned statement was recorded after over five hours of closed-door grilling. Prof Moyo, his deputy Dr Godfrey Gandawa, Zimdef chief executive Mr Frederick Mandizvidza and Zimdef principal director (finance) Mr Nicholas Mapute are expected to appear in court today. The minister -- who for long had been denigrating and claiming that ZACC was improperly constituted -- handed himself over to the anti-corruption body yesterday afternoon and was released into the custody of his lawyer Mr Terrence Hussein last night. Speaking after the meeting with ZACC officers, Advocate Lewis Uriri, instructed by Mr Hussein, said his client was placed under arrest and released into the hands of his lawyer. "I can confirm that he was invited to assist police and ZACC with investigations. He voluntarily availed himself for that process. He answered questions as put to him and at the end of that process,they immediately decided that they would be arresting, detaining and charging him." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 That might be the official conversation rate... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2016-11-04 11:36 |
| #2 I pulled up a currency converter, which gave me 400,000 ZWD = US$1,105.28 In Zimbabwe that's serious money. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-04 11:23 |
| #1 $400K Zim-bucks? That's what, about a dollar-thirty-nine? Drunk coffee without putting anything in the kitty? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-04 05:33 |