Rushwaya was suspended from ZMF last Monday following her
arrest at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport while trying to
smuggle more than 6kg of gold worth US$330 000 to Dubai.
The federation immediately set up a special committee to
probe allegations that Rushwaya was operating nosto accounts in the name of ZMF
without the knowledge of other members.
ZMF chairperson Makumba Nyenje yesterday confirmed that
they investigated the accounts, and established that they were above board.
“Actually, they are not secret accounts, they are accounts
which they opened on behalf of the organisation,” Nyenje said.
“We discovered that they were waiting for other signatories
to bring their documents. It is above board and no money has been deposited into
the accounts.”
ZMF general-secretary Philemon Mokuele last week said
miners deposited their fees in the accounts and there were fears that the money
could have been abused.
“In the meeting, the treasurer-general highlighted that
there were CBZ nostro accounts where miners deposited fees. We then discovered
that these accounts were not official, hence our decision to set up a committee
headed by the treasurer-general to look into the issue as well as audit all ZMF
accounts,” Mokuele said then.
Rushwaya and her accomplices, Gift Karanda, business
partner Ali Mohammed, Central Intelligence Organisation operatives Stephen
Tserayi and Raphios Mufandauya and two top police officers are languishing in
remand prison awaiting ruling on their bail application. Newsday
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