Harare | Kudzayi Mungarepfupfu is accused of unlawfully and intentionally converting a motor vehicle for her own use, after she was given the vehicle as a courtesy to go and fetch her school children.
The incident occurred in May 2022, when Mungarepfupfu approached the Mount Pleasant Service Station for refueling her Mercedes Benz. She joined the diesel queue instead of the petrol queue, and when the fuel attendant asked her if her car was a diesel car, she said yes.
After refueling the car for a few seconds, the fuel attendant asked Mungarepfupfu again if her car was a diesel car, and that is when she realized that she had made a mistake.
The fuel attendant immediately stopped refueling the car, and the manager of the service station was called.
Mungarepfupfu and the complainant, who is the owner of the car, agreed that she would be given the car as a courtesy to go and fetch her school children, while her car was being drained of diesel.
On July 9, 2022, Mungarepfupfu was given back her car after it had been drained of diesel. However, she did not return the car to the complainant, and instead claimed that the complainant had wrongly fueled her car with diesel and had inconvenienced her.
The complainant made numerous attempts to contact Mungarepfupfu to return the car, but she refused. On September 16, 2022, the car was recovered from Mungarepfupfu, and she was arrested.
The value of the car is US$40,000.
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