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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
ZIMBO NABBED FOR TAX FRAUD IN AMERICA
UNITED STATES – Flamboyant
Harare dealer and socialite
Tonderai Sakupwanya, better
known as Pound in the upmarket
circles was on Wednesday
sentenced to more than seven
years in prison and ordered to
pay $2.6 million in restitution by
a United States court.
He was arrested for creating
false identities in order to receive
federal tax refunds.
Pound was nabbed in the United
States in May and had pleaded
guilty to one count of theft of
public funds.
According to Star Telegram, a
Dallas based paper, Pound and
his partner in crime, Reminico
Hangazha, who is better known
in Harare’s elite circles as Boss
Remmy, defrauded the IRS by
obtaining tax refunds that were
generated through the electronic
filing of false income tax returns.
The refunds were sent to private
mailboxes the pair rented using
aliases. Authorities say they also
established bank accounts using
the same false names.
Boss Remmy, however, is
awaiting sentence but he has
pleaded guilty to theft of public
funds.
The two socialites were popular
in the capital where they were
famous for flaunting their
wealth, driving expensive cars
and showering up market
clubbers with expensive whiskey.
The two are ‘hero worshipped’
on several local mix-tapes as dee-
jays salute them for their
flamboyant lifestyle that easily
passed off for a script taken off a
Hollywood movie.
They are believed to have funded
local music through promoting
some entertainment firms in the
capital.
Meanwhile, there has been an
increase of young Zimbabwean
men being nabbed for tax fraud
in the United States of late.
Early 2014, another 25 year old
flamboyant socialite Tawanda
Marimbire was jailed in the US.
He was found in possession of
several luxury cars and $1m in
cash and money orders in a
storage locker.
He was sentenced to 6 years in
prison.
In the same year, one Kudzaishe
Robert Bungu, aged 28, was also
jailed. Star Telegraph/Zimbabwe
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