{"id":98188,"date":"2024-08-29T23:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/no-joy-for-chimombempofu"},"modified":"2024-08-30T01:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T23:51:02","slug":"no-joy-for-chimombempofu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/no-joy-for-chimombempofu","title":{"rendered":"No joy for Chimombe,Mpofu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>ZANU PF central committee member Mike Chimombe and his business partner Moses Mpofu have been denied bail for the upteenth in a matter where they are facing charges of using forged documents to win a street lighting tender in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling on Thursday, Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje said the State had proved beyond doubt that the accused could easily skip bail and leave comfortably outside the country considering their vast business empire.<\/p>\n<p>Mambanje ruled that the evidence from the defence was without proof that the two did not misrepresent using false documents.<\/p>\n<p>Allegations are that the two, through their company Juluka Projects and Plant Hire, placed a bid to provide street lighting in Harare ahead of the SADC summit. They allegedly used false documents to secure the tender after their company failed to meet the requirements in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was postponed to September 12 for routine remand.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, High Court judge Pisirayi Kwenda on Wednesday dismissed the bail appeal by Mpofu and Chimombe on a different charge of allegedly defrauding the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture of US$7 million in a botched presidential goat supply<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. ZANU PF central committee member Mike Chimombe and his business partner Moses Mpofu have been denied bail for the upteenth in a matter where they are facing charges of using forged documents to win a street lighting tender in Harare. 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