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Two more directors of e-Creator, a suspected Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded thousands of people of over US$1 million, have been granted US$1 000 bail each by the Harare Magistrates Court.
The two are Justin Kuchekenya and Abraham Mutambu.
As reported by <a href="https://www.newzimbabwe.com/two-e-creator-fraudsters-granted-us1k-bail-each-chinese-mastermind-remains-locked-up/">NewZimbabwe.com</a>, the two were granted bail on changed circumstances, after their co-accused Trymore Tapfumaneyi was granted bail recently.
This leaves the suspected mastermind of the Ponzi scheme, a Chinese national, Zhao Jiatong, the only suspect still in remand prison.
The four were arrested in July 2023 and have been in custody after they were denied bail by Magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa on their initial appearance.
According to court papers, sometime in January 2023, Zhao created an online investment Ponzi scheme called e-Creator.
On February 7 2021 and in connivance with Tapfumaneyi, Kuchekenya, Bily Thomas Syedou, Abraham Mutambu, Jiatong allegedly registered a company with the Zimbabwean Registrar of Companies named E-Creator Electronic Commerce Private Limited.
The company had its offices situated at rooms 15 and 16 10 Floor Joina City Building, Harare.
Prosecutors alleged that Zhao went on to launch the company as an online e-commerce operator with a global internet as its core. Reads the court papers:
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During the period from February 2023 to July accused misrepresented to unsuspecting Zimbabwean nationals that if they invested with the company, they would enjoy huge monthly profits depending on the amount invested.
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The court heard Zimbabweans across the country invested up to US$1 million into the company through various Ecocash numbers supplied on the platform by the accused. Prosecutors said:
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To make the company more attractive and appealing to unsuspecting Zimbabweans the accused used the media including the national television broadcaster Zimbabwean Television (TV) social media and powerful Zimbabwean socialites namely Tarisai Cleopatra Munetsiwa also known as Madam Boss, and Admire Mushambi also known as Mama Vee to advertise the company business on their social media platforms in order to gain more subscribers.
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The suspected fraudsters also allegedly employed various agents in major towns and cities throughout the country to market the business.
It is further alleged that on July 3 2023 some of the complaints encountered challenges in accessing their funds and approached the company for clarifications.
One of the accused persons, Abraham Mutambu assured these complainants that it was a system upgrade that was preventing them from accessing the funds.
The court heard Mutambu further advised them that the situation would normalise in due course.
On July 5 2023 complainants were shocked to realise that E-Creator Electronic Commerce Private) Limited had sent a notice on their website that they are no longer operating.
The company also posted the passport photo of the accused Zhao Jiatong as the one who had taken their money and absconded to China.
The court heard that the complainants also visited the accused’s known offices and saw that they had been permanently closed and there were no signs of business operations.
They received information that the accused person had withdrawn the money and fled.
As a result of the accused’s actions, complainants suffered an actual prejudice of US$1 000 000 and nothing was recovered.
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A fourth suspect involved in the E-Creator Electronic Commerce company case, where several individuals were defrauded of US$1 million in a Ponzi scheme, was apprehended and presented in court on Saturday.
Abraham Mutambu, who had evaded arrest by relocating to his rural home in Chihota, appeared before Magistrate Yeukai Dzuda. The magistrate remanded him to today for a bail application.
According to the allegations, in January 2023, the accused conspired with Jao Jiatong, Trymore Tapfumanei, and Justine Muchekenya, who are already in custody for the same case, along with other individuals who are still at large. They devised a plan to defraud unsuspecting Zimbabweans through an online investment Ponzi scheme.
On February 7, 2023, they established and registered a company named E-Creator Electronic Commerce (Pvt) Limited with the Zimbabwean Registrar of Companies. The company, with registration number 2853/23, operated from rooms 15 and 16 on the 10th floor of the Joina City Building in central Harare.
The accused then presented the company as an online e-commerce operator with a global internet presence.
Between February and July 2023, the accused, who was based at the company’s headquarters in Joina City, collaborated with his co-accused and deceived thousands of Zimbabweans by falsely promising substantial monthly profits based on their investments.
Numerous individuals from across the country joined the company and invested an estimated US$1 million through various EcoCash numbers provided on the platform by the accused. To make the company more enticing, the accused appeared on national television, traditional and social media, advertising its services and recruiting more victims into the scheme.
The accused expanded the company by opening branches throughout the country and recruiting additional participants.
On July 3, 2023, some complainants encountered difficulties accessing their funds and sought clarification from the company. The accused assured them that a system upgrade was causing the issue and that access to their funds would be restored in due course. However, on July 5, 2023, the complainants discovered that the E-Creator scheme had collapsed, resulting in the loss of all their invested funds and blocked withdrawals.
Investigations led to the arrest and detention of the other three accused individuals. Further investigations led to the apprehension of the accused, who had relocated to the Chihota communal areas. As a result of the accused’s actions, the complainants suffered a loss of US$1 million, and no funds were recovered.
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Fourth Suspect In E-Creator Fraud Case Arrested For Ponzi Scheme

The sudden closure of E-Creator Zimbabwe which had lured hundreds of Zimbabweans with promises of easy cash has left many people worse off after they had invested their earnings into the Ponzi scheme.
The “firm” closed a few days ago after it failed to transfer money to its employees’ Ecocash accounts. Anyone who joined E-creator was called an employee.
Reports suggest that people were asked to pay US$15 to become VIP1 “employees”. By the end of the month, this money would purportedly increase to US$50.
A VIP2 employee required a minimum of US$100 and a maximum recharge of US$500.
VIP3 employees needed a minimum of US$500 and a maximum of US$2000.
Those who ran the scheme made it mandatory for employees who wanted to upgrade an account from one VIP to another, to invite a certain number of people to join the scheme.
Many employees of the online company had reportedly worked hard to become VIP2 employees.
However, a few days ago, E-Creator admitted that it had failed to honour withdrawals claiming that it obtained the E-Creator Merchant Account of Ecocash which it said needed to be connected with Ecocash before allowing employees to access their cash.
It later informed its subscribers that it had been forced to close after an alleged Chinese national resident in Zimbabwe siphoned all deposits made by the company’s employees.
In a statement posted on social media, E-Creator claimed that one Zhao Jiaotong, who allegedly started the Ponzi scheme, had been fraudulently withdrawing cash from E-creator employees’ EcoCash accounts with plans to skip the border.
Speaking to <a href="https://zbcnews.co.zw/2023/07/06/zimbabweans-lose-thousands-of-usds-to-online-platform/">ZBC News</a>, Claris Bwanya, an E-Creator VIP 1 employee, said he will never join a Ponzi scheme again. He said:
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I will never involve myself in these scams again, I joined barely two weeks ago.
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Another employee who preferred to be anonymous said:
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Abraham must be tortured, for real. He will tell us where he put our monies. He shouldn’t behave like this!
We invested funds until we reached US$500 thinking we are now making US$20 dollars per day and now the platform closes just like that…
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On 04 July, E-Creator manager Abraham Mutambu told ZBC News there were working on fixing some glitches on the EcoCash platform. He said:
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The company is fixing Ecocash issues as there was disorder, some were receiving double payment after they had withdrawn once, for instance, one could withdraw US$100 and he or she would receive US$200.
So we are maintaining our financial system and those with delayed withdrawals, by Saturday noon they would have received their money with an interest of 4%.
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A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from their own money or from the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned.
The scheme relies on attracting new investors and using their investments to provide returns to earlier investors.
The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, an Italian-born swindler who became notorious in the early 20th century for running such a scheme.
Ponzi promised investors high returns on investments in international postal reply coupons, but he was actually using the money from new investors to pay off earlier investors.
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