A deported Chinese National who is also former DGL Investment 5 mine shareholder LI Song has been figures as the one sponsoring unrest at the Matabeleland North gold mine which has left two people hired to cause violence fatally shot. According to the investigations Li Song who is working with some named senior police officer that included a police Commissioner in Matabeleland North province, one Bernadette Makuku and one Blessed has been running the show for the deported Chinese National from her base in South Africa. It is alleged the illegal miners were hired and given US$30 each to protest at the mine on the alleged shootings and resulted in the letting of gold ore and vandalism of mine equipment valued at US$200 000.
A report was logged at Inyathi police station on case number CR08/12/25 but the police are reluctant through the influence of Commissioner Nyabasa to effect arrests on the suspects despite them being known after being captured on CCTV. Security manager at the DGL Investment mine Tendesai Chimuka who reported the matter at the police stated on his report that the illegal miners stormed the mine on November 30, last year at around 11am. He stated in his report that the illegal miners gathered at front main gate at Queens Mine, protesting against the fatal shooting of an illegal miner named Thabo Ngwenya by the DGL5 Security guards.
He stated that an old white Isuzu truck with no registration plates arrived at the gate and used vehicle tyres were offloaded. The accused persons lit the tyres and started making noise. They started throwing stones at the buildings, in the process breaking guardroom windows, one camera, denting the rear left passenger door of a Toyota Land cruiser registration number ACN 4688 and shattering door glass and denting the loading box of a Nissan Navara registration number ADV 4090.
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It is alleged that when the accused persons were restrained by the police and local leadership that had come to get full facts of the shooting incident, they went to the gold plant damaged the gates at the plant and started looting gold ore from the ore ground. It is alleged approximately 13 tonnes of gold ore were stolen and they also damaged windshield of a Shacman truck registration number AEZ 3374. The security manager said some of the accused proceeded to the milling plant where they first attacked the cage that houses the sluice box and Little Mviga panned concentrates by forcing open the security gate and began looting the sacks that were stored in there, before helping themselves to the concentrates and mercury contained therein.
The invaders also forced their way into the Amalgam barrels cage but were unlucky as all valuable targets had been removed. They damaged at custom milling properties that included two damaged laptops, broken security camera at plant guard room, vandalized start-stop buttons at the crushing plant, they also vandalized padlocks, Damage to some parts of the security fence, Some of the accused persons were clearly captured on the CCTV video footages replayed. The accused bolted with their loot through opening they had at the western side of the security fence and a total value stolen and damaged is estimated at US$200 000 and nothing was recovered.
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