Guilty verdict for bank fraudster

Thursday, November 29, 2018

The Village Magistrate’s Court has found Farai Mangombe, who was initially charged with 16 counts of crimes including forgery, uttering a false document, theft and obtaining by false pretences, guilty of at least nine.

Mangombe is alleged to have been the mastermind of a syndicate that was made up of two Zimbabweans and five Batswana that defrauded Standard Chartered Bank Botswana, First National Bank Botswana and Barclays Bank Botswana of an amount close to P2 million in 2016.

Principal Magistrate Goodwill Makofi revealed that Mangombe is charged alongside with Lawrance Bakang Magasula and Kabelo Mathe, who were later introduced as accomplices.

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Guilty verdict for bank fraudster

The Village Magistrate’s Court has found Farai Mangombe, who was initially charged with 16 counts of crimes including forgery, uttering a false document, theft and obtaining by false pretences, guilty of at least nine.

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