Plumtree – Two Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) officers have been arrested for allegedly falsifying the export records of a Lamborghini Urus and a Mercedes-Benz GLE 53 seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) in Harare last week in an investigation that reportedly led to the arrest of Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe.

The officers, Edwin Mhondiwa Chabuda and Upenyu Chaurura, who are stationed at Plumtree Border Post, are facing charges of criminal abuse of duty as public officers.

ZACC said investigations established that the two allegedly cleared the luxury vehicles for exit through Plumtree without physically inspecting them, in breach of ZIMRA’s standard operating procedures.

They are accused of fraudulently certifying that the vehicles had left the country when they had allegedly remained in Zimbabwe.

The Lamborghini Urus and Mercedes-Benz GLE 53 were seized by ZACC investigators at a lodge in Newlands, Harare, last week as part of an asset recovery operation targeting property suspected of being linked to corruption and other illegal activities.

The seizure was previously linked to Chatunga Mugabe, son of the late former President Robert Mugabe, who was among five men arrested during the operation over the alleged assault of a ZACC investigator.

ZACC has not independently confirmed Mugabe’s reported arrest or identified the registered owners of the two vehicles.

According to records cited in the earlier report, the Lamborghini entered Zimbabwe in June and was recorded as having exited on 12 July, while the Mercedes-Benz reportedly entered on the same date and was recorded as having left for South Africa on 10 October.

The discovery of the vehicles in Harare, despite the recorded exit transactions, prompted questions about how they had been cleared at the border.

The two ZIMRA officers are expected to appear before Plumtree Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, November 10.