Three more suspects believed to be involved in last week’s burglary case in which a financial services company in Belgravia, Harare, were raided and lost more than US$720,676, R10,500, an e120, a 7.65mm CZ Vzor pistol and three computers. Portable. yesterday.
Shadrick Tendai (42), Philip Rodzi (37) and Livingstone Tunha (53), all employees of Quest Financial Services, appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Apollonia Marutia.
The State applied for an additional detention order, which the judge granted.
They are expected to appear in court tomorrow along with six of their suspected accomplices.
The other six suspects are Washington Mangwanda (21), Brighton Chikwa (27), Silence Matambo (27), Liberty Mukanges (31), Richard Marondera (25) and Luke Zenninger (28), who initially appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Donald Ndirwi. .
The state also applied for an additional arrest warrant to allow police to continue detaining the six suspects for another 48 hours of investigation. Police said they needed to recover all property purchased using the proceeds of crime.
Defense counsel Mr. Tawanda Takaindisa did not oppose the application, but rather the period of detention for the six.
He noted that an additional 24 hours were sufficient to conduct interviews with the police, and objected to the memorandums submitted by the state to provide indicators.
The allegations against the gang are that on Friday last week they went to rob Lancelot Tashayawedu at his offices at 6 Rochester Road in Belgravia armed with a pistol, an unidentified unloaded revolver, a drill, an iron bar, a bolt cutter and explosives.
The gang was driving four separate cars: a blue Honda Fit, a silver Honda Fit, a black Mercedes Benz, and a black Toyota Wish.
Upon arrival, they approached Mr. Tashayawedu in his bedroom and bound his hands and legs with an electric cable, leaving him under the guard of one of the alleged robbers while the others smashed the window of an office building to gain entry to the office. .
The gang allegedly ransacked several offices in the building including the server room, the managing director’s office, the operations director’s office and the board room. The state case states that the suspected thieves blew up the strong room and safes with explosives and stole cash worth US$716,340-00, R10,000, an e120, a PABX phone and a CZ Vzor 7.65mm pistol, serial numbers 20273.
Their plan was disrupted by the arrival of a security guard reaction team who parked their car in front of the offices. The thieves fled the scene, leaving behind a grinder, fuse cables and a bag containing two laptop computers. The gang also dropped off cash worth up to $5,000 on their way out by breaking prefabricated panels at the back of the building.
In a statement this week, national police spokesperson, Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi, said investigators from Harare CID had received information linking Brighton Chikukwa to the crime. Investigators traced the suspect to Mbare, Harare where he was arrested and allegedly implicated the other suspects namely Zachariah Sharwanda Alias Zero, Traimor Chimbambo and Maxwell Kadzimbi as well as three employees of Qwest Financial Services.
Police allege Chikuka received US$40,000 in cash as part of his share of the stolen items. Investigators recovered $25,000 in cash and a Ford Ranger D4D, registration number AGC 6541, which he allegedly purchased for $14,000. Silence Matambo and Washington Mangwanda were later arrested in Mbare after being lured by Chikukwa.
Investigators recovered US$22,000 cash allegedly given to Matambo and Mangwanda as part of their share of the loot.
Police allege that Mangwanda received US$25,000 as part of his share which he used to buy a Toyota Aqua for US$5,300 and gave US$10,000 to his mother and another US$5,000 to his wife for personal use.
Detectives acted on the information received and arrested Liberty Mukanganise at Boka Tobacco Auction Floors in the Falls. Investigations conducted by investigators revealed that he received $23,000 in cash as part of his share of the stolen items. He led investigators to recover $20,560 in cash, a car radio, speaker, seat covers valued at $55, four size 15 tires valued at $240, car shields valued at $35, and mag wheels valued at $240. $400.
Tafadzwa Richard Marondera and Luke Zinninger were later arrested in Glen View and led investigators to the recovery of US$50,600 in cash. It was established that Marondera received US$35,000 as part of his share while Zinyengere received US$25,000.
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“The Zimbabwe Republic Police commends the public for providing positive information that has helped the police hold accountable suspects in armed robberies across the country. The police reiterate that company executives must ensure that information relating to organizations’ financial transactions, security and movements is not shared with every employee.
It is now clear that most high-profile theft cases contain an element of inside information. “We urge the public to continue sending information regarding criminal activities to the National Complaints Bureau number (0242) 703631 or WhatsApp 0712800197 or contact any nearest police station,” Assistant Comm Nyathi said. Announce
