Michael Mashiri
The three police officers accused of theft and malicious damage to property after allegedly staging a break in at Harare Central Police station after stealing US$45 000 have been granted bail.
Stanley Musekiwa, Mugwisi Takaidza and Masimba Stanley Gwasunda, were before magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa at the Harare Magistrates' Courts and granted US$100 bail each and will be back in court on September 28.
One of the accused is the officer in charge of CID Stores and Business, Harare and the other two are his subordinates.
The State, through prosecutor Pardon Dziva, alleges that on June 23, 2023, Mugwisi recovered US$40 500 from one Carlington Gengezha who had committed unlawful entry and theft in Belvedere, Harare.
The recovered money and US$5 000 from different cases was taken by Musekiwa, and handed it to Gwasunda who is the exhibit officer.
Musekiwa and Gwasunda who were supposed to put the money in a safe at CID Homicide Harare after being instructed by Deputy Director Crime CID Zimbabwe, instead they stashed the money into a four plate stove oven drawer which was in office 26 CID Stores and Business Harare.
On August 6, 2023, Mugwisi was deployed on night guard duties securing CID offices and the exhibit room.
At around 0100 hours it is alleged that the three might have taken advantage of the darkness after an electrical fault at Harare Central Police station and went to office 26.
They allegedly stage managed a break in by cutting the padlock that secures the screen gate using a bolt cutter yet in actual fact they used keys to open the door to enter.
They allegedly stole the money which was in a bag and yet to be quantified as exhibits before they set the room alight destroying several other exhibits comprising 2 four plate stoves, a fridge, bed, various clothing, several crates of beer, phones, several televisions, radios and gas tanks.
The fire caused extensive structural damage to the building and the value of the destroyed exhibits and building is yet to be quantified.
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