*Harare City Council officer sentenced to three years for multi million dollar fraud scheme* https://chat.whatsapp.com/ExGKnfriKIYDwClamIq6vS The Harare Magistrates' Court has sentenced Tafadzwa Dzapasi, aformer Debtors Control Officer at the City of Harare, to an effective 3years imprisonment after he was found guilty of fraud that resulted inlosses amounting to millions of Zimbabwean dollars. Between November 2022 and May 2023, using his position, hemanipulated dormant accounts and transitory funds to misrepresentpayments, ultimately diverting large sums for personal gain. Hetargeted dormant council accounts with credit balan ces andfraudulently transferred funds to accounts with outstanding debts. Hisactions deceived the City of Harare into believing that debtors hadsettled their payments, while in reality, no money had been received.One of the transactions occurred on December 20, 2022, when heintercepted a suspense account holding temporarily receiptedpayments from clients with incomplete references. Hemisappropriated cash equivalent to ZWL$1,393,875.35, disguising thetransaction as a legitimate banking deposit. Among the mostsignificant Source : National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe