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THE Reserve Bank (RBZ)’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) says it is taking measures to curb abuse of physical airtime vouchers for money laundering. In a notice to mobile telecommunications and mobile phone service providers, the IFU director Oliver Chiperesa said bulk airtime recharge vouchers were being abused by airtime dealers to facilitate illegal foreign currency…

SENIOR cop Erasmus Makodza, wants charges levelled against him dropped, after the prosecution closed its case in a matter he is accused of corruptly facilitating the leasing of a police farm to his girlfriend.  Makodza, who was the officer commanding Mashonaland East province at the time, is currently standing trial for allegedly concealing his relationship…

A 16-YEAR-OLD Beitbridge boy went berserk and killed a woman and her two children in the border town on Friday before setting their bodies ablaze, the Zimbabwe Republic Police, has said. The teen, who was on bail for allegedly murdering his 62-year-old aunt, reportedly dragged the three bodies into a hut before setting the house…

POLICE in Harare have launched a manhunt for a self-styled prophet who allegedly raped a 33-year-old woman in the capital’s high density suburb of Budiriro on the pretext that he was cleansing her of evil spirits. The man only identified as Madzibaba Tanya reportedly raped the woman after she visited her shrine with his ill…

A MASVINGO man, Patson Sinamai, escaped jail after the court ordered him to pay a $5 000 fine after he was convicted of assaulting a Zimbabwe National Army member with a pool cue in a bar.  Sinamai appeared before Masvingo magistrate Conceptor Ngerume, who sentenced him to three months in prison after finding him guilty…