Prisca Mupfumira, Zimbabwe’s tourism and environment
minister, was remanded in custody after facing seven charges of corruption
Friday in the first such case since President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to
clamp down on graft.
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, which arrested
Mupfumira Thursday, alleges she misused about $94 million from the state’s
National Social Security Authority while minister of public service, labor and
social welfare.
The charge sheet accuses Mupfumira of “criminal abuse of
duty as a public officer” for allegedly taking unauthorized loans from the NSSA
to buy a vehicle and fund her political campaign. She also instructed the
social security agency to provide funds to Zimbabwe’s Metbank “under unclear
circumstances,” it said.
Magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi ordered Mupfumira be remanded
in custody until the hearing resumes on Saturday.
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