A 25-YEAR OLD Harare woman has been fined $100 for attempting to use her sister’s British passport to travel to the United Kingdom. Shumirai Mtetwa of Mandara was arrested at the Harare International Airport as she attempted to dupe immigration officials. She breached the Immigration Act.
Mtetwa pleaded guilty when she appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Tendai Mahwe last Friday. Failure to pay the fine would land Mtetwa in prison for 20 days.
The passport was handed over to the British Embassy. Prosecutor Mrs Francesca Mukumbiri alleged that on Tuesday last week around 4pm Minerals and Border Control Unit detectives received a tip-off that a Zimbabwean woman was using someone else’s passport to fly to the UK.
The detectives intercepted Mtetwa at the checkpoint tendering the passport. Detectives approached Mtetwa and asked her to produce her passport. She showed them the British passport number GBR 510236440. The detectives interrogated Mtetwa who confessed that the passport belonged to her sister Melody Mtetwa. Melody is in the United Kingdom.
