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A woman from Chipinge, Zimbabwe, was last week caged three months after being nabbed by border patrol officers while smuggling five bales of second hand clothes near Mozambican border with Zimbabwe.
Flora Tsuro appeared before Chipinge magistrates court last Friday facing smuggling charges.
She pleaded guilty and was slapped with a three months’ jail term which was wholly suspended on the condition that she pays a $100 fine.
Asked why she committed the offence, Tsuro pleaded for leniency saying: “Your Worship the duty is prohibitive and I am a bread winner and life is becoming difficult.
“I need to fend for my family”.
But magistrate said Tsuro should look for honest means to make a living.
Public Prosecutor, Brain Madzura, told the court that last week Tsuro went to Chimoio in Mozambique and tried to smuggle five bales of second hand clothes through an undesignated entry point near Zona Estates so as to evade paying duty.
Police officers who were on a border patrol received a tip off that Tsuro had smuggled the bales and tracked her.
They managed to arrest her while the second hand bales were forfeited to the State.
Cases of smuggling are on the surge with the recent case of police officers who were arrested for smuggling second hand clothes bales.
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