Botched fuel deal: CMED Boss shoots himself dead
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Botched fuel deal: CMED Boss shoots himself dead

CMED (Pvt) Ltd board chairman and managing director for Nemchen (Pvt) Ltd Mr Leslie John Denn committed suicide last week in unclear circumstances, it has been reported.

Mr Denn (35) shot himself once in the head and his body was found by his wife at their Borrowdale house in Harare.

National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi confirmed the death yesterday.

“On May 9, Mrs Denn left for work at around 7.30am and left her husband at home. (Mr) Denn is reported to have told her that he would go to his workplace later on.

“The wife returned at around 5pm and asked the housemaid where (Mr) Denn was. She was told that he was sleeping in the bedroom,” he said.

He said the wife tried to open the door to the bedroom but found it locked from the inside. She later broke a window to the bathroom to gain entry into the bed- room.

Chief Supt Nyathi said the wife found Mr Denn lying dead in a pool of blood with a pistol beside him. It was yesterday still not clear why Mr Denn committed suicide and police say they were still investigating the death.

Mr Denn’s death follows police’s intensification on their manhunt on the two First Oil Company (Private) Limited directors who are wanted on allegations of obstructing the course of justice after they reportedly connived with CMED managing director Davison Mhaka to cook up papers showing how $2,7 million in the botched fuel deal was spent.

 

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