Zacc arrests ex-convict Kereke for US$400k fraud
Harare- FORMER ZANU PF legislator and ex- convict Munyaradzi Kereke was nabbed by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) Thursday and arrested on allegations involving US$400 000.
Working in cahoots with suspended Harare Municipal Medical Aid Society (HMAS) chief executive officer Everisto Rukasha, the duo allegedly hatched a plan to swindle the local council.
They appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court Thursday answering to fraud charges and expected back in court Friday for bail hearing.
It is alleged that in March last year, Kereke and Rukasha connived to swindle HMMAS and entered into a fraudulent acknowledgement that the council medical aid society was owing Kereke US$400 000 involving the sale of his Fortress hospital in Ruwa.
This was misrepresentation since HMMAS had paid the asking price of US$800 000 in full.
The fraudulent transaction came into light after an internal auditor raised a red flag.
The seemingly unrepentant Kereke served an effective 10-year jail term for raping a juvenile relative at gunpoint and was released in August 2021 on $500 000 bail, coupled with stiff conditions by the Supreme Court, pending his appeal against both the conviction and the sentence.
The recent reshuffle in the local judiciary system has seen a blitz targeting dormant cases of high profile citizens which had been ‘forgotten’.
