Fake cop jailed 5 yearsBy CHARLES MUSONDAA LUSAKA businessman has been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing his former schoolmate’s motor vehicle after impersonating a police officer working under State House.Lusaka Magistrate Alice Walusiku yesterday sent Chishimba Mpundu Mwelepete, 29, of Kabulonga, to prison after finding him guilty of stealing a BMW 350i registration number BAE 7957 belonging to Mr Moses Ngoi and valued at K45, 000.Evidence before court was that in June 2018 Mwelepete approached Mr. Ngoi with a proposal to hire out his car to State House for five days at K1, 000 per day and even showed him a card as proof that he was a police officer.After the five days elapsed, Mwelepete lied to Mr. Ngoi that State House was not releasing motor vehicles due to challenges after which he stopped picking up his phone calls.Upon enquiring from Mwelepete’s family, Mr. Ngoi discovered that he was not a police officer but a small businessman who used to exchange clothes with other items and buy animals for resale.Two months later the complainant […]
Fake cop jailed 5 years
