Terrence Mawawa, Bikita | Two nurses here have been implicated in a recruitment scam in which they swindled unsuspecting applicants of their hard earned cash.
The two nurses Jairos Mupamhadzi and Respina Manjeru are stationed at Silveira Mission Hospital and Odzi Clinic respectively.
The two nurses connived with Herbert Munyikwa, Patricia Magazine , Beauty Dzviti and Martha Nyapokoto and swindled aspiring nurses of $ 60 000.
The two nurses appeared before Masvingo Magistrate Peter Madhibha last week. The other four suspects were released on $ 300 bail each.
The court heard that Mupamhadzi, Manjeru, Munyikwa, Nyapokoto and Magazini fraudulently opened Econet Lines with the help of Dzviti.
Dzviti is an Econet Wireless employee.
They then placed several adverts on recruitment of nurses in The Herald and they also posted the adverts on various social media platforms.
They also provided fake contact details. The suspects demanded kickbacks from the applicants.The six suspects would also publish fake lists of successful candidates in The Herald.
However the six suspects ran out of luck when police detectives set a trap for them.
“Magazine was arrested as she received some cash from a police detective. That is when she disclosed all the details.
She then led the police to her accomplices’ respective places,” the court heard.
The case will continue on December 29, 2017.
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