The two were convicted of the three counts after a full
trial before Harare regional magistrate Mrs Estere Chivasa.
For the purposes of sentencing, the first two counts were
treated as one and the magistrate handed out a pair of effective 10-year terms
to each of them.
Muswe is serving three years in prison for a similar
offence.
The State prosecutor Mr Ngoni Kaseke proved that in
February 2022, Mashonganyika connived with Tendai Muswe and Hassan Mohammed Ali
based in Oman to traffic unsuspecting Zimbabwean women to that country for
labour and sexual abuse.
They created a WhatsApp group where they advertised
non-existent lucrative jobs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He recruited three victims after promising them high paying
hotel jobs, coupled with good working conditions in Dubai and the victims fell
for the lies.
Mashonganyika processed visas, air tickets as well as
medical examination reports and facilitated transportation of the victims from
Zimbabwe to Oman, instead of Dubai, as had earlier been promised.
The victims only realised that they had been duped upon
arrival at Muscat International Airport in Oman.
Upon arrival in Oman, the victims were received by Hassan
Mohammed Ali al Shihhi, who confiscated their passports and drove them to his
base.
The victims were handed out to work as house maids and were
subjected to domestic servitude, working around the clock with no pay.
They were made to feed on left-overs and were sexually and
physically abused.
The matter came to light when the victims reported their
ordeal through Interpol and relatives back home, who in turn reported the
matter to police for investigations, leading to the arrest of Mashonganyika.
When they arrested Mashonganyika, the police searched his
house and discovered payments sent from his accomplice, Hassan Ali al Shihhi in
Oman through Money Gram money transfer agency.
The victims were located and repatriated.
0 comments:
Post a Comment