Police arrested five people, including two National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees who were part of a syndicate that defrauded the parastatal of more than 1,400 litres of diesel.
It is alleged that the fuel syndicate stole diesel that is valued at $150,000 from NRZ’s locomotives and sold it on the parallel market.
iHarare established from Sunday News that on Thursday police in Bulawayo arrested Taurai Moyo (40), Thomas Musavengana (44), an engineman at NRZ, Oliver Mapenduka (45), a security guard at NRZ, Perfect Mpala and Bawinile Ndlovu.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed that the five were arrested at a business premise in Thorngrove after someone tipped-off the police that fuel was being sold at the premise.
I can confirm that police in Bulawayo are investigating a case of theft of fuel and on January 7, 2021, at around 3 pm, police arrested five accused persons in connection with the matter, Insp Ncube said.
According to Inspector Ncube, on the 7th of January 2021, police received a tip-off that Moyo, Ndlovu and Mpala were selling stolen diesel at their Thorngrove base.
Soon after the tip-off, Police detectives started a surveillance mission on the premises and observed the accused persons offloading drums of diesel from a vehicle belonging to Moyo.
Inspector Ncube said, the police raided the premises and found the stolen diesel leading to the arrest of Moyo, Ndlovu and Mpala.
The team pounced at the garage and arrested the above-mentioned trio. A search was conducted at the premises leading to the recovery of four 200-litre drums, two 210-litre drums and seven containers of 25 litres of diesel, he said.
Inspector Ncube added that after interrogations the trio revealed that they had help from two NRZ employees – Musavengana and Mapenduka.
The accused persons were interviewed and revealed that they had stolen the diesel from NRZ trains by means of draining it.
The three accused persons implicated NRZ employees Musavengana and Mapenduka whom they connived with to drain fuel from the trains.
The accused indicated that they had drained the diesel from a train in the Nyamandlovu area. Moyo then led police to the two NRZ employees, said Inspector Ncube.
Police arrested five people, including two National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees who were part of a syndicate that defrauded the parastatal of more than 1,400 litres of diesel.
It is alleged that the fuel syndicate stole diesel that is valued at $150,000 from NRZ’s locomotives and sold it on the parallel market.
iHarare established from Sunday News that on Thursday police in Bulawayo arrested Taurai Moyo (40), Thomas Musavengana (44), an engineman at NRZ, Oliver Mapenduka (45), a security guard at NRZ, Perfect Mpala and Bawinile Ndlovu.
Bulawayo police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed that the five were arrested at a business premise in Thorngrove after someone tipped-off the police that fuel was being sold at the premise.
I can confirm that police in Bulawayo are investigating a case of theft of fuel and on January 7, 2021, at around 3 pm, police arrested five accused persons in connection with the matter, Insp Ncube said.
According to Inspector Ncube, on the 7th of January 2021, police received a tip-off that Moyo, Ndlovu and Mpala were selling stolen diesel at their Thorngrove base.
Soon after the tip-off, Police detectives started a surveillance mission on the premises and observed the accused persons offloading drums of diesel from a vehicle belonging to Moyo.
Inspector Ncube said, the police raided the premises and found the stolen diesel leading to the arrest of Moyo, Ndlovu and Mpala.
The team pounced at the garage and arrested the above-mentioned trio. A search was conducted at the premises leading to the recovery of four 200-litre drums, two 210-litre drums and seven containers of 25 litres of diesel, he said.
Inspector Ncube added that after interrogations the trio revealed that they had help from two NRZ employees – Musavengana and Mapenduka.
The accused persons were interviewed and revealed that they had stolen the diesel from NRZ trains by means of draining it.
The three accused persons implicated NRZ employees Musavengana and Mapenduka whom they connived with to drain fuel from the trains.
The accused indicated that they had drained the diesel from a train in the Nyamandlovu area. Moyo then led police to the two NRZ employees, said Inspector Ncube.
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