Zimbabweans top the list of fraudsters in th UK + 3 Zim men jailed in UK for fraud

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Zimbabweans top the list of fraudsters in th UK

http://www.zimdaily.com/news/nhs27.7205.html

 

By PAUL NDLOVU

Published: Thursday 28 May 2009

 

Below .is list of cases dealt with by the uk courts just this past week.

  

/Illegal immigrant, Ignatius Dube, from Zimbabwe, jailed for 21 months at Sheffiel Crown Court after netting £70,000 from an NHS bursary, wages and benefits.

 

/Illegal immigrant Dzikamai Mhakayakora, from Zimbabwe, jailed at Chelmsford Crown Court for nine months after trousering £85,000 in a bursary and wages.

 

/Illegal immigrant Tendayi Mukwe, from Zimbabwe, jailed for a year at Chelmsford after she swindled a £20,000 NHS bursary - although her leave to stay in Britain expired in 2003.

 

/Illegal immigrant Aisha Badamasi, from Nigeria, jailed for a year at Harrow Crown Court, London, after claiming £36,000 in NHS student bursaries.

 

 

3 Zim men jailed in UK for fraud

 

Sat, 30 May 2009 14:03:00 +0000

 
Mudavanhu Diza (L) and Naison Mubaiwa

 

 

THREE Zimbabwean men have been sentenced to a combined total of 11-years in prison at Leeds Crown Court yesterday in connection with fraud offences.

Naison Mubaiwa (34) of Leeds and Paddington Muzondiwa (25) of Swindon pleaded guilty on 10 March 2009 to conspiracy to defraud in connection with the theft of high value cheques from financial institutions from January 2007.

Mudavanhu Diza (47) of Leeds was found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to defraud on 19 March 2009.

Mubaiwa has been sentenced to 3.5-years in prison Muzondiwa has been sentenced to 2 years in prison Diza has been sentenced to 5.5-years in prison.

These sentences form part of Operation Illmington which was launched by West Yorkshire Police in 2007.

It saw the force’s Economic Crime Unit, Operations Support Division, the Organised Crime Group and local Neighbourhood Policing Teams all working together and warrants executed at 30 addresses in West Yorkshire and elsewhere in the country.

On 14th May Charles Kanyimo (35) of Wakefield was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment at a hearing at Leeds Crown Court after he earlier pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to defraud in December 2008 and January 2009.

In February 2009 two men aged 38-years-old and a 25-year-old man received cautions for theft and possession of articles used in connection with fraud and in January 2009.

Another Zimbabwean man aged 34 years old received a community order requiring him to complete 180 hours of community service in connection with the operation.

Dumisani Nyamayaro (31) of Barnsley, pleaded guilty on 10 March 2009 to conspiracy to defaud and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday 30 June.

This investigation is still ongoing and 10 men and women who were also arrested in connection with the operation have been interviewed by detectives and released on police bail pending further enquiries.

Following the sentencing Detective Chief Superintendent Howard Crowther said: “We accept the sentences passed today and hope they serve as a warning to other would be fraudsters who think they can get away with stealing cash.

“We will not standby and allow people to live off ill-gotten gains at the expense of others.

“Operations such as these demonstrate the commitment of West Yorkshire Police in bringing fraudsters to justice.”

 

-West Yorkshire Police/TZG

 

 

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Isaac H. Dziya
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