Woman jailed for conspiring with divorce lawyer to fraudulently sell house

Zim Now Writer

A Mutare woman connived with the now deceased lawyer who handled her divorce to fraudulently sell a house to businessman and sungura musician Brian Samaita.

Seclean Kadawu, 42, appeared before Mutare magistrate Richard Ramaboea charged with fraud as defined in Section 136 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.

The State alleged that sometime between 2017 and 2018 Kadawu and Harare lawyer Shepherd Makonyere, deceased, connived to sell the property at No 7061 Wentwood Drive, Boarderville to Samaita, knowing that Kadawu’s ex-husband Tawanda Jeffery Nyamudeza had sold it to Alfred Zivanai Mukarakate.

Kadawu was married to Nyamudeza from 2001 to 2013 and during that period Kadawu and Nyamudeza sold their house to Mukarakate.

In 2013 Makonyere represented Kadawu in her divorce proceedings against Nyamudeza.

Ramaboe sentenced Kadawu to five years in prison, with six months suspended on condition of good behaviour for the next five years.

 

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