{"id":40799,"date":"2021-05-24T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=40799"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:06:17","slug":"us-court-exonerates-businessman-tawanda-wallen-mangere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/us-court-exonerates-businessman-tawanda-wallen-mangere","title":{"rendered":"US Court Exonerates Businessman Tawanda Wallen Mangere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>NewsDay<\/b> &#8211; A ZIMBABWE Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) contractor, who was alleged to be a fugitive from justice in the United States, was never convicted of any crime in that country, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Zimdef was last week accused of giving Tawanda Wallen Mangere of Tano Digital Solutions a huge information technology contract without doing background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Mangere\u2019s rivals claimed that he had served a jail term in the United States for fraud or that he had fled America fearing incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>The US embassy in Harare linked NewsDay to Fulton County Magistrates\u2019 Court in Georgia, where Mangere was detained for about 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A case was opened against the Zimbabwean businessman on March 17, 2010 under case No 308457MC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no criminal case against Mr Mangere. He has no pending legal issues. He is not a fugitive,\u201d said Bryant Brinson, a supervisor at the Fulton County court in emailed responses to NewsDay.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Vaughn, director for customer service at the Fulton County District Attorney\u2019s office said: \u201cI found no open or pending cases with Mr Mangere\u2019s name in our office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a document received from Brinson, signed on Wednesday by Mary Conklin, a clerk at the Fulton court, Mangere was charged for deposit account fraud (felony), but the case was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe case was heard before a Fulton County Magistrate judge, who ordered that the charge against Wallen Mangere be dismissed on 04\/14\/2011,\u201d part of the deposition of the magistrates\u2019 case read.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by NewsDay showed that Mangere has been going in and out of the US and his last visit was on December 17, 2019 using passport No FN812449 just before the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Mangere dismissed the allegations against him as a smear campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not say much, considering that this is natural in business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is always resistance to new entrants resulting in market rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, I am happy that the market is aware of the machinations and smear campaigns happening on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the spirit of national building, this is the time to embrace the ethos of the national development strategy (NDS1) and one of the 14 key a national priority is the digital economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAccordingly, instead of smearing each other, we are committed and we will not waiver in this resolve to move our country forward and help in the implementation of the goals and targets towards to assist the country achieve the upper middle class status by 2030 through the digital transformation of our key national institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. NewsDay &#8211; A ZIMBABWE Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) contractor, who was alleged to be a fugitive from justice in the United States, was never convicted of any crime in that country, it has emerged. Zimdef was last week accused of giving Tawanda Wallen Mangere of Tano Digital Solutions a huge information technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-40799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Court Exonerates Businessman Tawanda Wallen Mangere - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NewsDay - A ZIMBABWE Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) contractor, who was alleged to be a fugitive from justice ...\" \/>\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\/us-court-exonerates-businessman-tawanda-wallen-mangere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Court Exonerates Businessman Tawanda Wallen Mangere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NewsDay - 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