Former ZBC TV presenter, Oscar Pambuka and ex Zanu PF legislator, Psychology Maziwisa will from Thursday spend 78 months each behind bars for swindling the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) through a bogus public relations deal.
Harare magistrate Lazin Ncube sentenced the duo to 54 months each for the first count and on the second count, they were sentenced to 24 months each.
They were facing two fraud counts and were convicted of both.
On the first count, 12 months were suspended on condition they restituted ZPC $12,000 by January 2019 and a further 12 months were suspended on condition of good behaviour.
The magistrate further ruled that 24 months of the second count will run concurrently with the remaining 30 months of the first count.
Effectively, the two will each serve 30 months imprisonment.
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