Popular television and radio presenter, Tichafa Augustine Matambanadzo also known as Tich Mataz, was today (Tuesday) found guilty of smuggling clothes from China by magistrate Lazini Ncube who sentenced him to 2 months in prison. Mataz was however given an option to pay $300 before he asked for time to pay the fine.
Ncube then questioned why Mataz was asking for time to look for the money yet he once told the court that he had huge savings such that he could not have dodged paying $538 duty. Matambanadzo’s defence was that he was excused by a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) official as their system was down. However, prosecutor Francesca Mukumbiri proved that Matambanadzo vanished from the declaring cubicle after filling his declaration form when the attendant went to process his goods on another functional cubicle.
More: NewZimbabwe.com
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