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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 87198, member: 27"] A glowing WhatsApp status flipped into a brutal cellblock crackdown, leaving two fraud convicts battered, guards fired, and their sentence perks basically hanging by a thread. Phone bust inside Chikurubi [LIST] [*]Moses Mpofu’s active WhatsApp status tipped off a monitoring team. [*]Surveillance tracked Facebook and WhatsApp activity before the raid. [*]Officers stormed his cell and grabbed an iPhone. [*]Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison staff allegedly beat Mpofu for answers. [/LIST] Confession drags in the partner and the guards [LIST] [*]Under pressure, Mpofu pointed at Mike Chimombe. [*]He also named officers accused of hiding phones during the day. [*]A follow-up search in Chimombe’s cell found another iPhone. [*]Both inmates landed in the prison hospital after the assaults. [/LIST] Officers fired after internal sweep [LIST] [*]Searches of staff quarters turned up iPhone chargers. [*]Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service convened a disciplinary tribunal. [*]Last Friday’s hearing ended with the implicated guards dismissed. [*]No official ZPCS statement has confirmed the firings yet. [/LIST] Remission and wider probe at risk [LIST] [*]Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, oversees the prison service. [*]Authorities are weighing scrapping remission for both men. [*]Investigators are combing through their outside communications. [*]Further criminal charges could follow if new offenses surface. [/LIST] Background and political reaction [LIST] [*]Chimombe is serving 17 years with five suspended. [*]Mpofu received 22 years with eight suspended. [*]Both convictions stem from the Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme fraud. [*]Hopewell Chin’ono posted on X that power vanished after the party fallout. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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