{"id":17823,"date":"2020-01-07T22:33:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2020-01-07T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T20:33:33","slug":"jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Former ZINARA Finance Director Freed On Bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed former<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pindula.co.zw\/ZINARA\">\u00a0ZINARA<\/a>\u00a0finance director Simon Taranhike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.pindula.co.zw\/2019\/11\/15\/former-zinara-boss-jailed-over-corruption\/\">who was jailed for corruption in November 2019<\/a>\u00a0has been freed on bail, The Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>Taranhike was jailed for 15 months for abusing the ZINARA fuel facility and authorising the issuance of 1800 litres of fuel to a ZBC journalist.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication:<\/p>\n<div class=\"cN67jf98\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>Taranhike through his lawyer Mrs Rekayi Maphosa had appealed against conviction and sentence arguing that he was improperly convicted.<\/p>\n<p>In the appeal Mrs Maphosa argued that the State failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt as required by the law.<\/p>\n<p>She said the essential elements of criminal abuse of duty were not satisfied by the State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Taranhike\u2019s appeal will be heard before the high court later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jailed former\u00a0ZINARA\u00a0finance director Simon Taranhike\u00a0who was jailed for corruption in November 2019\u00a0has been freed on bail, The Herald reports. Taranhike was jailed for 15 months for abusing the ZINARA fuel facility and authorising the issuance of 1800 litres of fuel to a ZBC journalist. According to the publication: Taranhike through his lawyer Mrs Rekayi Maphosa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[804,633],"class_list":{"0":"post-17823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-zbc","10":"tag-zinara"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jailed Former ZINARA Finance Director Freed On Bail - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jailed former\u00a0ZINARA\u00a0finance director Simon Taranhike\u00a0who was jailed for corruption in November 2019\u00a0has been freed on bail, The Herald reports.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jailed Former ZINARA Finance Director Freed On Bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jailed former\u00a0ZINARA\u00a0finance director Simon Taranhike\u00a0who was jailed for corruption in November 2019\u00a0has been freed on bail, The Herald reports.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-07T20:33:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/14\/2019\/04\/zinara-toll.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"461\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/jailed-former-zinara-finance-director-freed-on-bail\",\"name\":\"Jailed Former ZINARA Finance Director Freed On Bail - 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