A foreign national has appeared in court on allegations of
forging a Zimbabwean birth certificate and national identity card which he used
to acquire a Zimbabwe driver’s licence and a passport. Bruce Charles (44),
whose real name and nationality are yet to be established, pleaded not guilty
when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mrs Rumbidzai Mugwagwa.
Charles was facing charges of possessing articles for
criminal use and was remanded in custody to October 31 for bail application.
The State also sought time to establish his real name and
nationality. It is the State’s case that on dates unknown by the prosecutor Mr
Lancelot Mutsokoti, Charles manufactured a fake Zimbabwean birth certificate
with a falsified birth entry number SBY\2807\75.
Again, on a date unknown to the prosecutor, Charles
manufactured a fake national registration document which had a falsified
identification number.
He used the fake identification card to obtain a driver’s
licence. Using the fraudulently acquired documents he went on to
acquire a Zimbabwean passport which was issued on February 23, 2014. Herald
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