HARARE, Jan 31 (NewsDay Live) - DYNAMOS Football Club founding member Bernard Marriot Lusengo was on Friday Jan 31. cleared by Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda, of fraudulently acquiring majority shares in the club.
Lusengo was facing allegations of corruptly acquiring 51% shareholding and allocating other shares to undeserving members, who were not the club’s original members.
Dzuda ruled that Lusengo is the only surviving member of the squad’s pioneers squad, which was founded in 1963.
She also ruled that the word former in this case are the players who played for the club in its pioneering years and from this case, none of the complainants played in those years, but only joined later.
She further indicated that the State failed to place evidence to prove any fraudulent activity in acquiring the shares by Lusengo.
Investigations established that Lusengo allegedly declared himself the club’s chairman, in the process acting against a High Court order, which awarded each founding member a 1% shareholding.
The then High Court judge Justice Luke Malaba gave the order after the ownership wrangle spilt into the court in 2005.
Leslie Gwindi was the complainant in the matter
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