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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 87831, member: 27"]
Over three million dollars in court-ordered payback from a goat-scheme fraud remains completely untouched, and prison time could get longer.

Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe dodge restitution
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[*]Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, both jailed for defrauding a Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme, owe a combined US$3,024,315.24.
[*]Mpofu got 22 years, with four of those conditional on coughing up US$2,060,250.60.
[*]Chimombe landed 17 years, and two are tied to repaying US$964,064.64.
[*]Zero dollars have reached the government so far.
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How the US$87 million scam worked
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[*]Blackdeck Livestock and Poultry Farming scored an US$87 million goat-supply contract using fake ZIMRA and NSSA certificates.
[*]Rural food-security programs for vulnerable groups were the intended beneficiaries.
[*]An advance worth roughly US$7.7 million got funneled into other accounts and parallel-market trades.
[*]Only 4,208 goats showed up out of an expected 85,000.
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Supreme Court appeal on the horizon
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[*]Zimbabwe's Supreme Court will hear their leave-to-appeal bid on Friday.
[*]Proceedings are set to happen in chambers.
[*]Suspended sentence portions could kick back in if restitution stays unpaid.
[*]An extension-of-time application is their only other lifeline.
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