By A Correspondent | ZimEye | A local paint manufacturer Nash Paints has dragged its two employees to court on allegations of defrauding it of US$19 000.

The two suspects are Chipo Mapfumo 32, and Takudzwa Gorejena aged 37.

They appeared before Harare magistrate Isheunesu Matova who granted them US$100 bail each.

The two will be back in court in two weeks for their routine remand.

According to court papers,between September 2024 to January 2025 the accused persons were deployed at Nash paint shop at Gazaland, Highfield where their duties were to feed stock into the system for selling.

It is alleged that acting in collusion, the two accused person fed few items into the system than what was collected from the warehouse.

“Sometime in January 2025, Nelson Tshabalala who is employed by the complainant as business system manager was doing his routine duties and he discovered a stock discrepancy at Nash paint Gazaland site, Machipisa.

“This prompted complainant to dispatch an audit team to investigate further,” read cout papers.

The court heard that on the 18th day of January 2025 the team conducted an audit and discovered that there were irregularities in the system.

The team also noted disappearance of stock and the accused persons failed to account for stock loses suggesting potential foul play.

The audit team discovered that the two were on duty between the period 1 September 2024 to 17 January 2025 and there was a variance of paint unaccounted for valued at $19592

Nothing was recovered.