A SUSPECTED bogus lawyer, with an accomplice who is still at large, allegedly lured a Bulawayo resident, who had property attached over debt he owed Home Link Micro Finance, to pay $500 representation fee to them on the pretext that they were lawyers who would prevent the sale of the attached property, only to disappear until the property was sold.
SILAS NKALA STAFF REPORTER This was heard by the Bulawayo magistrate Gladmore Mushove on Thursday, when Thomas Faduku (36) of Nkulumane in Bulawayo, who is employed by Dawn Recoveries located at number 803 Bradlows Building as a supervisor in the legal department, appeared before her charged with fraud.
He was not asked to plead to the charge and the magistrate granted him $100 bail, remanding him to October 15.
The court heard that on March 14 this year the complainant Noah Charle (49) of 33 Stroud Avenue, Southwold, in Bulawayo was called by a Constable Misho at the High Court Police post, where he met the two accused Faduku and Emmanuel Shoko, who is still at large, together with Judith Sibanda who had guaranteed Charle’s a loan from Home Link Micro Finance, which he had failed to service.
The two accused persons introduced themselves as legal practitioners and promised to assist with preventing the sale of property that had been seized by the messenger of court.
The amount he owed the finance house was not stated.
Through misrepresentation by the two, Charle was charged $500 for the service and he paid the amount.
After paying, later on several occasions Sibanda, the guarantor of Charle’s loan called Faduku and his accomplice on their mobile phones to confirm progress on the issue of blocking the sale of the attached property, but they kept on ignoring his calls until the property was sold.
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Efforts to locate them by Sibanda and Charle were fruitless until Charle made a report to the police, leading to Faduku’s arrest and charge with fraud.
The amount defrauded was $500 and nothing was recovered.
