HARARE businesswoman, Linds Balpai, who is a director at Lee Capital (Pvt) Ltd, a real estate company, has lost $8 million cash in a fraud case.
The matter came to light when John Kandemiri (57) appeared before a Harare magistrate on Wednesday facing a fraud charge.
Kandemiri was remanded in custody for bail application.
It is alleged that sometime in November 2022, the complainant’s tenant, Manoj Prasad, lost his mobile phone, which Kandemiri found and used.
Balpai sent messages to Prasad’s Whatsapp account, looking for
US$10 000. Kandemiri asked her to deposit money in a CBZ Bank account, which belonged to a company called Capital Hive Private Limited.
The following day, Balpai went to Prasad’s residence to collect the
US$10 000, but he professed ignorance of the transaction, and revealed that he had lost his phone.
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Balpai then realised that she had been duped and reported the matter to the police.
Capital Hive director, Anistos Munyaradzi Makanda was then picked on December 12 for questioning and it was established that sometime in November 2022, he was approached by Lighton Lloyd Chizema, who is on the run, and was told that he knew someone with $8 million who was looking for US dollars.
Makanda gave Chizema Capital Hive CBZ Bank account number, where the $8 million was transferred and received US$9 091 in return.
Chizema and Kandemiri shared the money and nothing was recovered.
