Police refuse to release Morgan Tsvangirai’s BMW
Police have refused to release an armoured BMW X5 vehicle, confiscated by police in the run up to the disputed presidential elections from the MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai.
The BMW X5 was impounded by police on 6 June when Mr Tsvangirai was detained for several hours at Esigodini police station in Lupane.
Instead police have charged a South African businessman with violating customs law after he donated an armoured vehicle to Tsvangirai for use during a June second round presidential election, controversially won by President Robert Mugabe.
The businessman, Adriaan Espag, brought the vehicle – a bullet-proof BMW X5 registered in South Africa – into Zimbabwe and gave it to Tsvangirai.
Police later impounded the vehicle from Tsvangirai’s driver saying it was illegal under the Customs and Excise Act for the opposition leader to use the vehicle in the absence of owner Espag who at the time had already returned to South Africa.
Posted by Wellington Chadehumbe
on October 30, 2008. Filed under Local News.
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