TWO State witnesses yesterday told the High Court that Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu put the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation under pressure to conclude the mining partnership deals with two companies that had been already identified and approved.
Testifying in the case in which Core Mining director Lovemore Kurotwi and former ZMDC chief executive Dominic Mubaiwa are accused of fraud involving US$2 billion, ZMDC former board chairperson Ms Gloria Mawarire and a board member Mr Tichaona Muhonde said Minister Mpofu simply gave them the names of two companies - Grandwell Holdings and BSGR - as already identified and approved investors to partner Government in mining diamonds.
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