Just In: Kereke remains caged, bail hearing to be heard next week
Harare- THE bail hearing for former ZANU PF legislator and ex- convict Munyaradzi Kereke’s US$400 000 fraud case has been pushed to November 13, Express Mail Zim can report.
Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa said Kereke’s lawyers must submit written submissions.
This was however a somersault from the previous stance that Gofa had taken Friday morning where he was agreeable to Kereke’s lawyers to make oral submissions.
Kereke therefore remains caged over the weekend.
He was arrested by Zacc Thursday on allegations of fraud involving US$400 00.
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.
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.
