Vusumuzi Ncube (27) of ZRP Kamativi Camp in Hwange allegedly under-receipted a traffic fine paid by a motorist and later swallowed the doctored traffic ticket to conceal the evidence after he was confronted over the offence. Ncube appeared before Hwange magistrate Rose Dube facing a fraud charge and was remanded him out of custody to November 3 for continuation of trial.
The court heard that Ncube waved down motorist, Soren Lindstrom, at Cross Mabale on March 13 this year and ordered him to pay a fine for driving a car without lug nuts. He claimed each missing lug nut attracted a fine of $10, which translated to $40 for the four wheels. Lindstrom paid the $40 and left. Upon arrival at Ivory Safari Lodge, he asked Joel Kasunungure whether it was an offence in Zimbabwe for a motor vehicle not to have lug nuts on its wheels.
Realising that his client had been defrauded, Kasunungure drove to the police checkpoint, where he found Ncube still at the roadblock. He confronted Ncube and asked whether it was an offence to drive without lug nuts. When other police officers intervened, Ncube then requested for the ticket he had issued to Lindstrom and swallowed it in a bid to destroy the evidence.
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