Zimbabwe: Couple Cleared As High Court Slams ‘Improper Conduct’ in Gono Fraud Case

A Harare business couple hauled before the courts on fraud allegations involving former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has been acquitted after the High Court threw out the charges, blasting the lower court for “inventing” offences that prosecutors had never brought.

Clark Clever Makoni and his wife, Beverly Aisha Ndonda Makoni, walked free after Justice Neville Wamambo Dembure delivered a blistering judgment overturning Regional Magistrate Stanford Mambanje’s refusal to grant them…