A Zimbabwean businessman is due to appear in court for a bail hearing, charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar coronavirus medicine and equipment procurement scandal.Delish Nguwaya is facing two charges of misrepresentation and fraud after he allegedly tried to secure contracts to supply a state firm.He's the first person to be arrested in a scandal that was initially exposed on social media.

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People started raising questions about how a controversial businessman, who had failed a vetting process months earlier, had managed to set up a new company and secure millions of dollars' worth of contracts to supply medicines and equipment - some at hugely inflated prices.The government has said it has now cancelled his contract.

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has long pledged to stamp out corruption, but his government has secured only two convictions in nearly three years despite many prominent arrests.Source: bbc.com

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