Times Of Swaziland: ZIM FUGITIVE ACQUIRES ESWATINI PASSPORT TO ESCAPE ZIM FUGITIVE ACQUIRES ESWATINI PASSPORT TO ESCAPE ================================================================================ Sabelo Majola on 16/05/2023 09:04:00 MBABANE – In what could be likened to the South African Thabo Bester saga, a Zimbabwe fugitive wanted for the murder of three people, acquired an Eswatini passport to escape to Ireland. Peter Dube (37), a businessman who was in the car dealership industry, is being sought by Zimbabwe police, in connection with three murder cases committed in 2021 and has been put on the International Criminal Police Organisation’s (Interpol) most wanted list. According to an investigation piece by the Sunday Mail, the prominent Gweru car dealer allegedly opened fire on four people, following a heated altercation with his second wife Nyasha Nharingo, over infidelity allegations. It is believed Dube and Nyasha had a long-standing dispute, with the former convinced that the latter was involved in an adulterous affair. Affair It was reported that Dube shot Shelton Chinhango, the man who allegedly had an affair with his wife, at close range and turned the gun on his second wife’s best friend, Gamuchirai Mudungwe, whom he shot in the chest and she died instantly. He went on to shoot Nyasha and her sister Nyaradzo and the two were rushed to hospital, where Nyaradzo died on admission. It was reported that investigations by the police have corroborated The Sunday Mail’s expos’e that Dube (37) skipped Zimbabwe to South Africa, where he changed his identity before relocating to Ireland. However, Interpol has now been roped in to facilitate the arrest and extradition of the suspected murderer. A Red Notice, which is a request to law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender or similar legal action, has since been issued for Dube. Zimbabwe Police Spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the latest development as reported by Bulawayo24. He said ongoing investigations confirmed that he disappeared and left the country. “New leads show that he jumped the border and started living in Eswatini under the alias Xolile Mtsali. He then relocated to Ireland, where he sought asylum. We have since engaged Interpol and I can confirm that Dube is now on the Red List. We are pursuing the investigations and we will put all our efforts towards making sure that he is brought back into the country,” he said as quoted by Bulawayo24. Police detailed that on April 23, 2021, Dube, who was a car dealer, approached his second wife, Nyasha, and her suspected lover Shelton Chinhango, also a car dealer, who were seated in a minibus parked outside a flat in Gweru’s central business district, where she lived. Nyathi added that Dube, who was 35 years old at the time of the incident, was a businessman operating Mixed Car Sale in Gweru and he was also into gold dealing. The incident occurred on April 21, 2021 around 8pm, in Gweru and he disappeared on the same night. “Investigations also show that he helped his wife Nomatter Chawana to relocate to Dublin using a new identity. She is now using the name Sandra Simelani,” Nyathi said as quoted by Bulawayo24. Earlier investigations by Bulawayo24 indicated that five months after the shootings, Dube allegedly changed his identity to Xolile Mtsali and acquired a passport (A09465267) in Eswatini on October 28, 2021. He later used the passport to move to Ireland, where he applied for asylum, before being accommodated at Red Cow Moran Hotel in Dublin, according to the Zimbabwe publication. The fugitive also later assisted his wife, Chawana and children, to acquire new identities. The family is now among refugees living at Red Cow Moran Hotel, as reported by Bulawayo24. “Chawana has allegedly assumed the alias Nosipho Sandra Simelani, according to a copy of her passport purportedly issued in Mbabane on October 20, 2021,” reads the newspaper.