THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has arrested
Bean There Restaurant managing director Delny Deanna Ashley Davies on
allegations of defrauding a fellow businessman of US$700 000. Davies was picked up in Bulawayo on November
25.
In its request for remand document case number HCR.
73/11/2019, Zacc stated that Davies (43) committed fraud as defined in section
136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, Chapter 9:23.
Allegations are that sometime in November 2018, she hatched
a plan to defraud the complainant Prince Abraham, managing director of Nedlac
Automation based in South Africa and Nedlac Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd based in
Zimbabwe of US$700 000, which she used to settle her loan with Zakanya Patel.
Zacc’s charge sheet states that pursuant to her plan,
Davies approached Abraham and misrepresented to him that she had some free
funds in South Africa and if the complainant had any payments to settle in the
neighbouring country, she had the capacity to settle it.
In return, Abraham would then transfer US$700 000 into her
account. Abraham told Davies that his company had two major invoices
which had to be settled to Nedlac Automation South Africa totalling R3 500 000.
The invoices were to be settled as R3 070 000 to Maggotteax
South Africa for goods bought and delivered to PPC Bulawayo and R430 000 to
Toyota Nelspruit for Nedlac Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd company vehicle.
“The accused instructed the complainant to deposit US$700
000 into FMC Finance Company Ecobank account and acting on the misrepresenting,
on 26 November 2018, the complainant made two internal transfers of US$200 000
and US$500 000 into FMC Ecobank account through interbank banking using his
Ecobank account,” Zacc papers state.
Zacc avers that Davies misrepresented that she had free
funds in South Africa because she had a preconceived plan to swindle Abraham of
his money to settle her loan with Patel.
“Investigations established that when the money was
transferred into FMC Financial Services Ecobank account, US$72 000 financed an
overdraft for FMC Financial Services and US$628 000 was transferred to a
Steward Bank account, on instructions from Zakanya Patel,” Zacc stated.
Investigations also established that on November 29 2018,
R450 000 was paid to Nedlac Automation South Africa FNB account by Davies and
she converted a balance of R3 050 000 to her own use.
Zacc stated that investigations further revealed that
Davies made another deposit of R110 0000 into Nedlac Automation FNB account.
“The accused person’s conduct caused an actual prejudice of
US$664 200 and a total of US$7 432 was recovered,” the charge sheet read.
Davies on Tuesday appeared before Bulawayo magistrate
Tinashe Tashaya and was granted $5 000 bail before being remanded to December
11 for trial. Newsday
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