{"id":64659,"date":"2022-08-19T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop"},"modified":"2022-08-19T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:30:23","slug":"fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title deed for a property in Mutare.<\/p>\n

The pair of Dillion Mutizwa Mashinga (44) and Brighton Ruzvidzo (40) appeared before Harare magistrate, Dennis Mangosi, charged with fraud, and were granted ZW$50 000 bail and ZW$ 30 000, respectively.<\/p>\n

The matter was remanded to September 29 pending further investigations.<\/p>\n

The State case is that during the period extending August 2016 to 2019, Mashinga and Ruzvidzo connived to defraud the unidentified complainant by faking a Sectional Deed of Transfer of a property in Mutare.<\/p>\n

Mashinga is said to have misrepresented facts saying the title deed had been cancelled after it was processed using an incomplete beneficiary list, and that a total of US$23 308 was needed for its re-issuance.<\/p>\n

The complainant complied and handed over the required money.<\/p>\n

In July 2019, and in a bid to convince the complainant, Ruzvidzo called the them and impersonated the secretary of a High Court of Zimbabwe judge, asking for a chamber application default fee.<\/p>\n

He also phoned the complainant pretending to be one Detective Sergeant Makwara from CID Commercial Crimes Division investigating circumstances surrounding the insurance of the Sectional Deed of Transfer.<\/p>\n

The court heard that inorder to cover up for the offence, the duo gave the complainant fake proof of payment receipts.<\/p>\n

The mobile numbers used for communication were registered in the name of Brighton Ruzvidzo as confirmed by the service providers.<\/p>\n

Investigations established that no payment was made at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) and the City of Harare.<\/p>\n

Also, High Court confirmed that it did not handle cases involving the complainant and the issue of the Sectional Deed Transfer.<\/p>\n

Accused persons had no lawful right to act in the manner they did.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title deed for a property in Mutare. The pair of Dillion Mutizwa Mashinga (44) and Brighton Ruzvidzo (40) appeared before Harare magistrate, Dennis Mangosi, charged with fraud, and were granted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,35,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":["post-64659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...\" \/>\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\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\"},\"wordCount\":316,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\",\"name\":\"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1080,\"caption\":\"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop - zimbabwe","description":"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop","og_description":"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1080,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop","datePublished":"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop"},"wordCount":316,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zimbabwe","Zimbabwe"],"articleSection":["all news","Economy","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop","name":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg","datePublished":"2022-08-19T15:19:37+00:00","dateModified":"2022-08-19T17:30:23+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"TWO Harare men have landed in soup after they were allegedly paid US$23 308 by a client whom they issued a fake title de ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_13-62ffc88b82913.jpg","width":1920,"height":1080,"caption":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/fraudsters-in-us23k-con-one-of-suspects-posed-as-judicial-officer-cop#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u2018Fraudsters\u2019 in US$23k con; one of suspects posed as judicial officer, cop"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}