Rushwaya accomplices freed on bail
Henrietta Rushwaya’s accomplices, Stephen Tserai, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda, who are facing allegations of attempting to smuggle gold out of the country, were today freed on $30 000 bail each.
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Henrietta Rushwaya’s accomplices, Stephen Tserai, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda, who are facing allegations of attempting to smuggle gold out of the country, were today freed on $30 000 bail each.
Harare regional magistrate Mr Ngoni Nduna is next week expected to make a ruling on a fresh bail application on changed circumstances made by Henrietta Rushwaya’s accomplices in the gold smuggling cases they are facing.
Regional magistrate Ngoni Nduna has granted Z$100 000 bail to former Zimbabwe Football Association boss Henrietta Rushwaya who was arrested after being caught trying to smuggle 6.09kgs of gold to Dubai.
Suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president, Henrietta Rushwaya, will spend more time in remand prison after her freedom bid was dismissed by Justice Benjamin Chikowero.
Henrietta Rushwaya on Friday complained in court that her 6kg gold was being tampered with at Fidelity Printers and Refiners saying it has since lost three grams in weight and also lost 6 percent of its purity.
The four Zimbabweans facing charges related to the discovery of 6kgs of gold in Henrietta Rushwaya’s hand-baggage as she was trying to leave the country last month have been denied bail on the grounds that the State case against them is strong and they have the means and incentive to abscond.
Henrietta Rushwaya, Pakistani businessman Ali Mohamad, Central Intelligence Organisation operatives — Stephen Tserai and Raphios Mufandauya — and miner Gift Karanda, will spend another five nights in custody after their bail ruling was moved to Monday.
The long court hearings over the bail applications by Henrietta Rushwaya and her four co-defendants held on charges of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold continued in their second week yesterday.
Business tycoon Ali Muhamad, who has been accused of being at the centre of Monday’s attempt to smuggle 6kg of gold by Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, yesterday challenged his placement on remand saying he was a legitimate businessman who buys and exports gold from Fidelity Printers with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe paying him through off-shore accounts.
The Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya’s gold saga involving 6kg that was seized while allegedly being smuggled to Dubai has sucked in two more Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) bosses, police have revealed.