Two guys from the Small Grains and Legumes Association Trust just walked free after a Harare magistrate tossed fraud charges over some busted farming deal. Oral Ntsona and Lousthaan Tapiwa Ngoshi got accused by lawyer Standa Sani, who claimed he dropped $13,000 on tilling work for a chia crop that never paid out because frost killed everything, and the insurance supposedly lapsed.
Magistrate Sharon Rakafa said prosecutors didn't prove the pair actually scammed anyone, and the whole mess looks more like a contract dispute than criminal behavior. Sani already won an arbitration case but couldn't collect, and the magistrate basically told him to take it to civil court instead of trying to lock people up over it.
Magistrate Sharon Rakafa said prosecutors didn't prove the pair actually scammed anyone, and the whole mess looks more like a contract dispute than criminal behavior. Sani already won an arbitration case but couldn't collect, and the magistrate basically told him to take it to civil court instead of trying to lock people up over it.
