Zimbabwe cop fake death to get fuel

Zimbabwe cop fake death to get fuel

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By Staff Reporter

A POLICE officer has been charged with forging a death report so that he could get cheap fuel for resale on the black market, reports said Wednesday.

Hearses get special treatment at service stations in Zimbabwe - which is in the throes of acute fuel shortages - and are usually allowed to jump queues.

The policeman, Promise Mandizvidza, allegedly made a fake death report and gave it to his accomplice, an undertaker, so that the pair could get a burial order.

Reports said that they planned to take the burial order to a fuel station so that they could get fuel for resale.

But an alert registrar of deaths questioned the death report and found that it was fake.

Zimbabwe has been beset by severe fuel shortages since early last year and many fuel stations are dry.

Most motorists are forced to buy their fuel on the black market or from private importers, where one litre of petrol or diesel can fetch up to six times the price set by the government.

Policemen and civil servants struggle to make ends meet in Zimbabwe where inflation is now running at more than 585%. -Sapa-dpa
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