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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau
Two Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) employees stationed in Beitbridge have appeared in court charged with fraud involving $6 100 and R11 000.

The two, Malapela Garayi Mukwena (54), a cashier, and Alson Zhou (40), an accountant at the parastatal, were arrested following an audit conducted by their employer on March 31.

They denied the charges of fraud when they appeared before Mr Godswill Mavenge recently who remanded them to 27 May for trial on $50 bail each. Mukwena was ordered to reside at his given address, a Zinwa house in Beitbridge and to report at Beitbridge urban police station once a week while his accomplice, Zhou was ordered to reside at house number 5366 in Nketa in Bulawayo and to report at ZRP Tshabalala once a week as part of their bail conditions.

Prosecuting, Mr Pernson Chekeya told the court that on an unknown date between March 2011 and February 2015, Mukwena received money from consumers at the Beitbridge offices amounting to $6 132 and R11 050. He said the accused was supposed to deposit the money into his employer’s bank account and handover the deposit slips to Zhou who was to enter them into their billing system in Bulawayo.

Mr Chekeya said the two then connived to defraud the company and Zhou entered the receipts into the Zinwa billing account system as if cash had been deposited in the company’s bank account without deposit slips. They then converted the money personal use.

Nothing was recovered.