Charges against Zimdef chief executive Fredrick Mandizvidza have been dropped, it has emerged. He will now testify against former Deputy M...
Charges against Zimdef chief executive Fredrick Mandizvidza have been dropped, it has emerged.He will now testify against former Deputy Minister of Higher Education Minister, Godfrey Gandawa and two other officials. The prosecution withdrew charges against Mandizvidza because the evidence gathered did not link him to the fraud and criminal abuse of office charges.
But lawyers representing Gandawa, Zimdef principal director Nicholas Mapute and Shepherd Hozheri, former personal assistant to Professor Jonathan Moyo, yesterday notified the court of their intention to apply for quashing of the charges.
Justice Herbert Chitapi postponed the trial of the three to tomorrow. The fugitive former minister will now be prosecuted separately, as soon as he comes back to Zimbabwe.
Gandawa was arrested last year together with Mapute and Hozheri for allegedly misappropriating over $400 000 in Zimdef funds.
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