A Harare lawyer reportedly sold three properties belonging to a client and pocketed $160 000 after he was engaged to effect transfer of the properties in question into a company's name.
Peter Kawonde (49) was not asked to plead to three counts of fraud and one count of theft of trust property when he appeared before Harare magistrate Ms Jessy Kufa, who remanded him out of custody to February 17 for trial.
Sometime in October 2010, Ms Audrey Mavis Cruickshank was appointed executor through a general power of attorney to administer the estate of the late Stanley Edwin Amm.
The estate had three residential stands in Philadelphia, Harare. Ms Cruickshank sold the properties to the late Odwell Mutandinda Simunyu through Marillar Properties Real Estate Agents.
It is alleged that in October 2010, the now deceased Simunyu later on entered into an agreement of sale and resold the properties in question through ClipClunt Real Estate Agents to the complainant, Broadway Investments.
The complainant suffered a prejudice of $160 000 and nothing was recovered.
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