{"id":4700,"date":"2024-10-07T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4700"},"modified":"2024-10-07T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:00:49","slug":"guard-to-serve-six-months-for-misappropriating-us7000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4700","title":{"rendered":"Guard to Serve Six Months for Misappropriating US$7000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bongani Matshazi, a 51-year-old man, has been sentenced to six months in prison for stealing a whopping US$7,259 and R10,000 from his employer, Zimsend Pvt Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The twist? He used the funds for a spiritual cleansing ritual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magistrate Mrs. Evia Matura initially handed down a 30-month prison sentence but suspended 24 months &#8211; 12 months conditional on good behavior and 12 months pending restitution of the stolen amount. As of now, only US$530 has been recovered, leaving Matshazi with a substantial debt to repay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The degree of moral blameworthiness was high, and the offender deserves a custodial sentence,&#8221; Mrs. Matura emphasized, highlighting the severity of theft from an employer as a significant breach of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all &#8211; Matshazi tried to cover his tracks by reporting a fictitious robbery to the company&#8217;s operations manager and filing a police report at Figtree Police Station. However, investigations revealed his account was fabricated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bizarre defense, Matshazi claimed he gave the money to a traditional healer during the cleansing ceremony, only to find it had mysteriously turned into papers and old bond notes when he tried to retrieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve seen spiritual leaders and rituals making headlines for the wrong reasons. Remember Prophet Shepherd Bushiri, who was arrested and charged with fraud and money laundering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Case Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stolen Amount: US$7,259 and R10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purpose: Spiritual cleansing ritual<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sentence: 6 months in prison<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recovered Amount: US$530<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a sobering reminder to approach spiritual practices with caution and integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent Bongani Matshazi, a 51-year-old man, has been sentenced to six months in prison for stealing a whopping US$7,259 and R10,000 from his employer, Zimsend Pvt Ltd.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4700","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\/4700","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=4700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4702,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4700\/revisions\/4702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}