ONE of the people accused of having robbed musician Sandra Ndebele- Sibindi of about $100 000 last year, is being sued by suspected illegal foreign currency dealers for swindling them of varying amounts of money.
Amanda Onwuchukwu, who is one of the women at the centre of the controversial Ndebele-Sibindi issue and is at large, is being sued by Mr Takaedza Takaedza for $11 000 in bond notes and Mr Hardmore Tsvangirai for US$19 000 for allegedly swindling them of the said amounts.
Onwuchukwu is reported to have been given the various amounts of money by both parties to change the money into US dollars and South African Rand. For Mr Takaedza, Onwuchukwu was given $11 000 in bond notes on 31 October last year and was meant to cross rate it to
US$4 000.
Mr Takaedza, according to High Court documents, claims to have communicated with Onwuchukwu through WhatsApp messages and can provide the messages in court as evidence.
Mr Takaedza in the suit alleges that Onwuchukwu had said she would pay back the money on 7 November last year but to this date has not and has since gone into hiding.
On the case involving Mr Tsvangirai, Onwuchukwu is reported to have swindled him of US$19 000, where she was meant to cross rate the money into Rand amounting to R292 500.
Tsvangirai is also being sued by one Farai Vengesu for US$11 500, which he reportedly advanced to him before being swindled by Onwuchukwu. It was reported last year that a woman from Emganwini suburb identified as Lindiwe Moyo allegedly defrauded Ndebele-Sibindi of $100 000 in a suspected illegal money changing deal that went sour.
The woman appeared in court and was ordered to pay back the money, while also being sentenced to do community service.
Moyo is reported to have connived with Onwuchukwu and a Simanga Gwemende to swindle Mrs Ndebele-Sibindi of the $100 000, before alleging that she lost the money to three suspects — two men and a woman — who had offered her a lift from Beitbridge to Bulawayo only to speed off without her, after they had taken a recess in Colleen Bawn.
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