The court heard that Mr Sisi Lin, an accountant at
Tian-tian Fresh Mart Supermarket in Highlands, would keep money from his
workplace in a drawer in his bedroom. Mapfumo who cleaned the bedroom noticed
the money coming in daily and informed her boyfriend Herbert Chikwiza
Kurebgwaseka who advised her to let the money accumulate before they could
finally steal it.
The Herald reports that on May 30, Mapfumo stole US$107 000 from Mr Sisi Lin. She
later shared the money with her cop boyfriend Kurebgwaseka and Paul Kondo after
they promised to protect her.
The two police officers shared US$60 000 between
themselves, while Mapfumo got US$47 000.
Kurebgwaseka went on to take Mapfumo’s share for
safe-keeping saying he suspected that she was being tracked by detectives.
After her arrest near Bulawayo, while she was in a truck on
her way out of the country, she was brought back to CID Highlands, Harare,
where she implicated Kurebgwaseka and Kondo as her accomplices.
The court heard that Kondo later took Mapfumo to his
girlfriend’s house in Sunningdale, where he restricted her from talking to
anyone, while he organised to take her to South Africa to evade arrest.
From May 30 to June 11, Mapfumo was staying with Kondo’s
girlfriend and she found her a house to rent in Glen View 3 and bought her some
property.
On June 12, 2024, detectives from CID Nkulumane, Bulawayo,
received information from three sources that Mapfumo had boarded a truck to
South Africa via Botswana.
The detectives acted on the information and arrested her.
The property and a Honda Fit belonging to Kondo which was used to commit the
crime have since been seized.
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