Staff Reporter| Convicted fraudster, Wicknell Chivayo has been fingered in another scandal this time involving the Central Intelligence Organisation in which he reportedly caused the arrest of a soldier previously assigned to his own prison cell during his incarceration at the Chikurubi Maximum Prison between 2005 and 2008.

Chivayo who was actively part of the corrupt and now deposed G40 regime, fearing being exposed, caused the arrest of the soldier, Professor (real firstname) Moyo, on false charges of impersonating the then Deputy Director general Aaron Nhepera, the latest investigation shows.

When the case gathered heat, Professor Moyo was in the media two months ago mistaken for former Higher Education Minister, Prof. Jonathan Moyo.

Professor Moyo was the soldier assigned to regularly inspect Chivayo’s prison cell during the time of his incarceration when Chivayo shared the cell with British soldier, Simon Mann. The latest report reveals that Chivayo’s motivation for getting Moyo imprisoned, is that the serviceman has with secret files on Chivayo’s activities, the subject of ongoing investigations to this date, during the time of his incarceration when he was convicted for fraud.

Chivayo has since been contacted several times on this matter and refused to speak on it.

The case which was heard on the 1st November 2017 saw High Court Judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi telling state prosecutors that Moyo was supposed to be given bail at the lower court. It is believed the reason this did not happen is that court officials feared the names of senior govt officials involved in the allegation.

But Chitapi said there is nothing like “a bigger name” before the court of law, all names are equal in a society like Zimbabwe.”

The first CRB number is 1000/17, but it is a continuation from the CRB number 9891/17. The prosecutor general Adv Ray Goba, Snr Ass Comm Arnold Makomo, DDG Aaron Nhepera are not direct complainants but they are being used by Chivayo in the case in which the state is in possession of manufactured evidence, the investigation shows.

The case continues…

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Meanwhile, the original case has the State claiming that on March 2, 2011, Moyo fraudulently secured an Econet line, and registered it using Itayi Kangarawa’s identification numbers. He allegedly later registered the same line with Ecocash in Nhepera’s name.

During the same period, Moyo allegedly bought another Econet line and registered it again in Kangarawa’s name, but registered the EcoCash account in the name of Ngoni Nyamasoka. On September 9 this year, Moyo phoned Chivayo and identified himself as Nhepera, asking for money to spend entertaining visitors over the weekend.

Moyo, according to the allegations, later phoned Chivayo using another line which he had registered in Nyamasoka’s name while posing as Nyamasoka from the President’s Office.

Chivayo claims that he then sought clarification from Nhepera, who confirmed that he was not aware of the false call and Chivayo reported the matter to the police, leading to Moyo’s arrest.

Benjamin Chikerema appeared for the State.