High Court Orders Three Month Civil Imprisonment For Businessman Delma Lupepe

High Court judge, Justice Isaac Muzenda has ordered Bulawayo businessman Delma Lupepe to spend three months in prison after failing to pay a $280 000 debt to Ecobank. Justice Muzenda ordered the civil imprisonment after Lupepe failed to meet a March 21 deadline. Justice Muzenda said,

Whereupon after reading documents filed of record and hearing counsel it is ordered that: judgment be and is, hereby, entered for plaintiff (Ecobank) against the defendant (Lupepe) for a decree for civil imprisonment for a period of 90 days against the defendant until he shall have paid the sum of $280 946,67 together with interest thereon at the rate of 35% per annum from October 12, 2017 to date of payment together with costs of suit on a legal practitioner and client scale by virtue of a High Court order dated March 26, 2012 under case number HC630/11 whichever happens first.

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