A Zimbabwean professor was kidnapped in South Africa and driven to Harare by a gang which wanted to rob him of cryptocurrency coins.
The eight-member gang hatched the kidnapping plot which
they executed until the professor managed to raise an alarm in Harare leading
to one of the gang being arrested and brought before a Harare magistrate. Moses
Chademana (60), was remanded out of custody to June 13 on US$1 000 bail. He was
charged with kidnapping and impersonation involving the abduction of Sheperd
Sikhosana and his wife Sekayi Adelpha.
The court heard that the gang visited the professor and claimed
to be from Interpol. They questioned Sikhosana about his involvement with
Falcon Gold Digital Forensic and Crypto Recovery Services. He told them that he
wanted to recover his wife’s hacked crypto coins.
The gang claimed that some Russians had been hired to
assassinate them and then ordered the couple into their vehicle, saying they
were taking them to Interpol Zimbabwe for further interviews.
Sikhosana and his wife were handed over to Chademana at an
Engen service station in Beitbridge. They were then driven to Harare and booked
into a lodge where they managed to raise the alarm and a suspect was arrested.
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