THREE unemployed Harare men on Saturday appeared before Harare magistrate Judith Taruvinga facing allegations of stealing passport forms.
Simon Matsika (37), Bisset Chikura (39) and Antony Mubweza
(49) were remanded on $5 000 bail each. They were all represented by Tapson
Dzvetero.
The complainant is the State represented by Tarisai
Chitanhi, who is employed by the Registrar-General’s Office as a cashier
supervisor.
Allegations are that on July 1, the Registrar-General’s
Office received 10 boxes with a total of 20 000 passport application forms from
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (Private) Limited with serial numbers ranging
from 4159001 to 4179000.
However, a total of 90 passport application forms with serial
numbers 417001 to 4175090 were stolen by one of the employees in the
Registrar-General’s Office passport section.
The State alleges that one of the stolen passport
application formswas submitted for processing in the name of Paul Mutatobi.
Detectives then carried out investigations, which resulted
in the arrest of Mubweza, who in turn implicated Chikura. Chikura then led
detectives to Matsika.
Matsika confessed that the forms had been stolen by an
unnamed employee at the Registrar-General’s Office. Newsday
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