{"id":4265,"date":"2024-09-16T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2024-09-16T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T10:24:54","slug":"gwanda-magistrate-accused-of-soliciting-bribe-to-solve-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Gwanda Magistrate Accused of Soliciting Bribe to &#8216;Solve Court Case&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Brunette Tshuma<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talent Phiri, a 35-year-old Gwanda magistrate, has been arraigned before the Bulawayo Magistrates&#8217; Court for abuse of duty as a public officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phiri is accused of soliciting a USD$3,000 bribe from a divorced man to influence a case in his favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will help you with your case, but you need to pay me USD$3,000,&#8221; Phiri allegedly told the man, promising to use his connections with the President&#8217;s office, National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe, and the Zimbabwe Republic Police to ensure his favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After negotiations, Phiri agreed to reduce the amount to USD$2,500, instructing the man to bring the money to his residence. However, before the transaction could take place, authorities arrived, and Phiri was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prosecution presented evidence of recorded phone conversations between Phiri and the man, revealing the magistrate&#8217;s alleged corruption. Phiri appeared in court for trial, facing charges under Section 174 of the Criminal Law for abuse of duty as a public officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brunette Tshuma Talent Phiri, a 35-year-old Gwanda magistrate, has been arraigned before the Bulawayo Magistrates&#8217; Court for abuse of duty as a public officer. Phiri is accused of soliciting a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}