BUSINESS NEWS

Scammers breach CVR database

A sophisticated scam targeting newly licensed drivers has rocked Zimbabwe's Central Vehicle Registry (CVR), with fraudsters allegedly breaching the agency's database and sending fake messages demandin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2025

POLITICS

Zimbabweans warned over Kenya job scam

The Zimbabwean government has issued a stern warning about a fraudulent job recruitment scam circulating on social media platforms, targeting Zimbabwean job seekers with false promises of employment o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Dr Guramatunhu loses in cryptocurrency scam

Renowned ophthalmologist Dr Solomon Guramatunhu has reportedly lost more than US$583,000 in a cryptocurrency scam allegedly orchestrated by a business associate and her husband, a Harare court heard y...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Online investment scam backfires for EcoCash agents

An attempt to make quick profits through an online investment scheme ended disastrously for two Mutare women who were convicted of fraud after misusing their employer's US$1,500. The crime came to lig...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

CVR online scams on the rise

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has raised the alarm over a surge in online scams targeting citizens seeking services from the Central Vehicle Registry (CVR). In an official ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zacc arrests BCC official over diesel scam

A senior official in the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) Fire and Ambulance Services Department has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on 107 counts of fraud, involving the al...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

ZTA warns over online recruitment scam

The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has issued a public warning over a fraudulent WhatsApp message currently circulating online, which falsely claims that the authority is recruiting individuals for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam

PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Tax scam costs Govt billions

Some players in the garment-making sector are allegedly skimming the Government of billions of dollars in potential tax revenue and suffocating downstream textile industries by abusing a special cloth...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 July 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwean students fall prey to scammers

What began as a dream to hone their skills and knowledge in international capitals of the world such as Beijing has turned out to be a living nightmare for many Zimbabwean students.Duped out of their ...

By Fatima Bulla | Published: 30 December 2018

POLITICS

Kasukuwere, Mombeshora named in land scam

HUNDREDS of people risk losing residential properties in the newly-established medium and high-density suburbs of Kia Ora in Banket after it emerged that former Local Government minister Saviour Kasuk...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$100m Zesa tender scam raises stink

IRREGULAR tender procedures coupled with a lax accounting system, among other factors, have delayed the completion of the US$100,4 million prepayment and smart metering project the power utility, Zesa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 December 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Large-scale gold miners in scam

Government has threatened to descend heavily on large-scale gold mining companies that are reportedly under declaring their gold output. Some of the primary producers are understood to be selling thei...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

NatPharm in golden handshake scam

FORMER managing director of the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm), Mrs Flora Sifeku, is set to walk away from the national drug procurer $200 000 richer after the board resolved to give her a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2018

POLITICS

Biti in $30 million NSSA scam

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday indicated that it was keen to interview Finance Minister during the Government of National Unity era Tendai Biti over allegations that he instructed t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

OPINION

Postal votes scam and the forgotten postman

Too many cooks spoil the broth. That's true, of course, but once in a while, it takes only one cook to do that, breaking the utensils and burning down the kitchen too. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissio...

By Tawanda Majoni | Published: 15 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare's $32m tender scam, officials' application dismissed

HIGH Court judge Justice Amie Tsanga, has dismissed an application for discharge by former Harare town clerk, Tendai Mahachi, who is charged alongside other officials on allegations of abuse of office...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's nephew named in land scam

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's nephew, Tongai, has been accused of illegally parcelling out council land to desperate home-seekers as a vote-buying gimmick.Tongai controversially won the Zanu-PF ticke...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Pension fund in corruption scam

A probe into the Unified Councils Pension Fund (UCPF) has unearthed massive abuse of funds amid evidence the board pocketed US$8,7 million in allowances, sitting fees and staff salaries between 2010 a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Stakeholders should act swiftly on card cloning scams

THE last few months have seen an upsurge in cases of electronic credit card fraud involving use of cloned ATM cards, as more Zimbabweans have embraced the use of plastic money due to cash shortages.Po...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 June 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Bank card cloning scams hit Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has been hit by a wave of sophisticated card cloning syndicates, which has seen retailers and individuals lose huge sums of money.Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) president Denford M...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Man arrested over fake vehicle insurance scam

A former employee of Regal Insurance company is in hot soup after he allegedly fleeced 16 motorists of nearly $1 000 by selling them fake passenger vehicle insurance policies. Munyaradzi Mhlanga (24) ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa named in Zesa scam

A STATE witness yesterday dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in former Energy minister Samuel Undenge's criminal abuse of office trial, claiming that his office had allegedly given a directiv...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 May 2018

POLITICS

Grace Mugabe sucked into ivory scam

A state-sanctioned investigation into a massive ivory and rhino horn trafficking scandal that prejudiced the foreign currency-starved nation of millions of United State dollars has sucked in former fi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mayor in stand scam

SOME Mutare councillors have drawn daggers against mayor Tatenda Nhamarare, whom they accused of arm-twisting management to allocate himself a residential stand that was earmarked for a church buildin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 March 2018
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