Posting business-trip updates from Osaka while arrest warrants sat with her name attached is a bold move. Hazel Silibaziso Mafu, about to hit 36, founded Hazel Motors Logistics, which operates under the Hezy Motors Logistics banner, and she spent five months ghosting Zimbabwean police.
Officers say she flew out through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport shortly after four of her staffers got hauled in over fraud, and Immigration has nothing logged for her return trip. She eventually strolled into a station voluntarily, lawyer at her side.
Her Milton Park offices are where prosecutors claim clients got fleeced for US$624,958.96 and ZiG1,275,878.35. Detective Sergeant Richard Maravanyika told regional magistrate Jesse Kufa that detectives holding a seizure warrant flagged down a vehicle hauling electronics off the property mid-raid.
The State is fighting bail on every angle, from flight risk to witness tampering to two warrants she skipped. Buyers were apparently told their cars would remain locked up pending an investigation, while complainant Charles Tatenda Mademutsa received a US$4,000 refund offer. Defense counsel Editor Mavuto gets his cross-examination round next.
Officers say she flew out through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport shortly after four of her staffers got hauled in over fraud, and Immigration has nothing logged for her return trip. She eventually strolled into a station voluntarily, lawyer at her side.
Her Milton Park offices are where prosecutors claim clients got fleeced for US$624,958.96 and ZiG1,275,878.35. Detective Sergeant Richard Maravanyika told regional magistrate Jesse Kufa that detectives holding a seizure warrant flagged down a vehicle hauling electronics off the property mid-raid.
The State is fighting bail on every angle, from flight risk to witness tampering to two warrants she skipped. Buyers were apparently told their cars would remain locked up pending an investigation, while complainant Charles Tatenda Mademutsa received a US$4,000 refund offer. Defense counsel Editor Mavuto gets his cross-examination round next.
