The suspect, Juliet Chibweza, was not asked to plead when
she appeared before Harare magistrate, Yeukai Dzuda.
The complainant is Mkandla’s company, Traverze Travel,
represented by Precious Mutunzi, one of its directors.
She is Zodwa’s daughter.
Chibweza is employed by the company as a travel consultant
whose duties include attending to customer queries and sending quotations to
clients.
The court heard that in August last year, Traverze received
an agent debit memo, which was a penalty for manipulation of figures for
airline tickets, and was slapped with a US$13 000 fine.
The company conducted internal investigations and they
picked up that Chibweza was undercharging the airlines while taking the full
amount from clients.
The company started monitoring transactions she was making
and, as they were doing spot checks, it was discovered Chibweza had issued five
tickets, which had been paid for in full.
She had, however, handed over US$1 300, instead of the
US$1700, she had received from the client.
When checks were made on the system, it was found out that
she had stolen US$44 627, which was
meant to be the agency’s commission. H Metro
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