TRIO NABBED OVER $1.9 MILLION COCAINE
A BRAZILIAN and two Kuwadzana women were hauled to court yesterday after they were reportedly found in possession of cocaine worth $1 900 000.
Patience Murinda (32), Siegfried Zibusiso Ndlovu (33) and Karoline Silva Mafra (23) were not asked to plead when they appeared before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi.
Allegations are that on April 1, police received information to the effect that Mafra, who is part of the syndicate, was coming to Zimbabwe from Brazil with a contraband of cocaine on Ethiopian Airways ET 873 and was expected to arrive in Zimbabwe the following day.
On April 2, police acted on the information and sent a team of detectives from CID Drugs and Narcotics to Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport where they intercepted her.
Murinda and Ndlovu reportedly went to the airport in a blue BMW to pick up Mafra and they were arrested and interviewed.
It is alleged that it was then discovered that they were acting on instruction from Bobby, who is believed to be Nigerian, to accompany Mafra to a guest house in Marlborough where she was booked and was supposed to be given drugs that were at their place.
The two then led the police to their residence where they recovered seven fabric samples from their bedroom packed in a blue plastic bag and between the fabrics were transparent plastics with a substance suspected to be cocaine.
The substance was tested and weighed 230 grammes, with a street value of $1 932 000.
Lancelot Mutsokoti appeared for the State.