Daniel Tsokotai Chikotosa (26) was arrested on allegations that he sold a fake diamond for $12 000 to an unnamed diamond dealer.
Chikotosa appeared before Mutare magistrate Innocent Bepura facing fraud allegations and was remanded to May 26 after he was granted $200 bail. It is the State’s case that on May 9, Chikotosa and his co-accused Romio Charles Tembo who has since been arrested, approached the complainant intending to sell him diamonds. The complainant told Tembo that they should look for bigger and better quality diamonds than what they had brought to show him.
Chikotosa informed the complainant that he had an eight-carat diamond valued at $12 000. The complainant gave Chikotosa the money after having promised to bring the diamond later. He phoned the complainant at around 8pm and told him that they managed to get a 9,4-carat diamond and they needed $3 000 top-up. The complainant told the Chikotosa to wait for him at 22 Miles along the Mutare-Birchenough Highway so that he could take him to Mutare. While on their way to Mutare, Chikotosa allegedly gave the complainant the 9,4-carat diamond, but when it was tested, it was found to be fake.
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