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• Published date: 05 August 2016
• Publication title: The Chronicle

POLICE are looking for a former Bulawayo City Council accountant for allegedly swindling home seekers of $108 000 in a bogus residential stands scheme.

Freddy Ndabalime Dube (42) allegedly misrepresented to home seekers that he was selling residential stands, but failed to deliver after being paid.

Acting Bulawayo police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Abednico Ncube said Dube committed the crimes between January 2014 and June this year.

'He misrepresented to complainants that he had residential stands that he was selling in the western suburbs. He sold stands, drafted agreements of sale and collected payments and failed to avail the stands to the complainants. The complainants were defrauded of $108 860,' said Asst Insp Ncube.

He said Dube's victims later reported the matter to the police but he had long disappeared.

'The complainants later discovered that they had been duped and reported the cases to the police.

'However, the accused had already disappeared and his whereabouts are not known,' Asst Insp Ncube said.

'Efforts to locate him have been fruitless hence the appeal to anyone with information on his whereabouts to contact the officer in charge ZRP CID Fraud Squad, Bulawayo Detective Chief Inspector Sibanda H on cell number 0772372/ 0712915307 or the investigating officer Detective...