Tinashe Sikwila (32) who works for South African trucking company, Prestige Carriers, contracted to transport boxes of bond coins into Zimbabwe, yesterday appeared at the Harare magistrate, Josephine Sande, charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act after he posted a picture of an invoice and the amount of money he was carrying on social media. He was remanded in custody to today for bail ruling.
The State alleges that Sikwila took a photograph of the invoice dated September 20 this year and sent it to a South African number owned by a certain Calisto. The invoice showing the amount of bond coins en-route to Zimbabwe circulated on social media platforms, thereby, discrediting the security of the escort team and Zimbabwean government.
On September 21, RBZ officials met Sikwila and his escort team at Beitbridge Border Post, ordered them to open their WhatsApp messages in an effort to establish who could have leaked the security information. It was allegedly discovered that Sikwila had sent the document to Calisto on a South African number.
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