THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday handed over to the police for further interrogation eight people, including senior officials with Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), who are charged with conspiracy and occasioning a 12.7bn/- loss to the government.
Principal Resident Magistrate Huruma
Shaidi gave the order after receiving a letter from the office of the
Zonal Crime Officer (ZCO), who sought permission to further grill the
accused persons in respect of the charges they are facing.
They are Tiagi Masamaki Kabisi (56), the
Customs Commissioner and Habibu Hamisi Mponezya (45), who is Manager of
the Custom Service Centre; Bulton Mackleans Mponezya (51), the Manager
of the Custom Control and Enforcement; EliachiHeriel Mrema (31), who is
in Charge of Azam Inland Container Depot (ICD).
The rest include Khamis Ali Omary (48),
Senior Custom Business Analyst; Harun Lyson Mpande (28), TRA Information
Communication Technology (ICT); Raymond Adolf Louis (39), who is
operation Safety and Security Manager at Azam ICD and Asharf Yusuf Khan
(59), the Manager Azam ICD.
Earlier, State Attorney Estazia Wilson,
for the prosecution, informed the court that they were still conducting
the investigations into the matter and, thus requested the case to be
postponed.
However, before adjournment of the case,
the trial attorney pointed out that the prosecution has been copied
with a letter from the police, which has been addressed to the court,
seeking orders for the accused persons to be handed back to the police
for further questioning.
The magistrate acknowledged that the
court had received the letter in question, but could not reveal which
areas the accused were going to be grilled on.
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