Michael Mashiri
A former Bogrov Trading Private Limited employee has been arraigned before the court accused of fraud and theft of trust property.
Nomatter Mutenje, 40, of Tynwald, appeared before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing fraud and theft of trust property charges.
The complainant in this matter is Bogrov Trading Private Limited.
The State alleges that in July 2023, Bogrov was looking for a service station to rent in Harare and approached Mutenje, who was said to be an agent for securing business premises on behalf of clients for a fee.
She allegedly showed Bogrov Trading a vacant filling station in Ardbennie, Harare and highlighted that the owner was on vacation and would come the following day.
Bogrov then assigned her to see the owner the following day.
Mutenje saw this as an opportunity to defraud Bogrov and negotiated with Power Cleaners Private Limited, the owners of the filling station and agreed on US$1 500 as monthly rentals.
She signed a lease agreement with Power Cleaners Private Limited on behalf of Bogrov.
Mutenje allegedly lied to Bogrov that Power Cleaners Private Limited had charged US$2 500 deposit and US$ 2 500 monthly rental.
Bogrov sent US$5 000 to Mutenje.
She allegedly changed the front page of the lease agreement and altered the monthly rentals to US$2 500.
She sent copies of the forged lease agreement and forwarded them to Bogrov on WhatsApp.
Bogrov paid agent fees to Mutenje and she was later employed as manager of the filling station.
Bogrov kept sending US$2 500 monthly for rentals to Power Cleaners Private Limited from August to November 2023.
Mutenje allegedly forged receipts of US$ 2 500 and lied that it had been raised by Power Cleaners Private Limited and sent them monthly.
Bogrov later met the directors of Power Cleaners Private Limited and was shown the original lease agreement.
It was discovered that the monthly rental was US$1 500 not US$2 500 and that Power Cleaners Private Limited, never charged the alleged US$2 500 deposit.
Bogrov realised that they had been duped US$2 500 claimed to be deposit and US$1 000 per month for four consecutive months prompting him to report the matter to police.
As a result, Bogrov suffered prejudice of US$6 500 and nothing was recovered.
The State alleges that from September 11 to November 7, 2023, Mutenje, who was allegedly receiving all the proceeds of the sale of fuel from Bogrov and was supposed to surrender the money to the company.
In November 2023, Bogrov became suspicious on the way Mutenje was discharging her duties and conducted an internal audit.
He discovered that Mutenje had stolen US$3 400.
Bogrov confronted Mutenje but she gave empty promises, claiming she would reimburse the money.
As a result, US$3 400 was stolen and nothing has been recovered.
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