A rich cousin has gone to court after being duped of US$15 000. Lisa Matuke, of Maropafadzo Energy (Pvt) Ltd, says she lost the money to commodity broker, Zivanai Elvis Mudyiwa, in a fuel equipment deal.
Matuke told the court that she entered into a lease
agreement with Cliperunt Real Estate (Pvt) Ltd, in which the latter agreed to
lease its fuel garage in Norton for a period of 10 years. Part of the agreement
was that Matuke was going to do some renovations at the premise, including
increasing the fuel storage facility.
Mudyiwa then engaged Brown Engineering (Pvt) Ltd to
manufacture a fuel tank at a cost which was equivalent to US$15 000 and to
install the tank at the garage. But the court heard that, Mudyiwa then hatched
a plan to steal the fuel tank. Mudyiwa proceeded to Brown Engineering and
misrepresented facts that he had been directed to collect the fuel tank by
Maropafadzo Energy.
He sold it to Chirthigh Company in Gweru for US$8000. The
offence came to light on June 24, this year, when Matuke visited Brown
Engineering to collect the tank and install it in Norton.
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