HOW WIFE STOLE MY E3.8M - WEEPING BUSINESSMAN

MBABANE – Judge Qinisile Mabuza was yesterday showered with tears as a businessman related how his wife allegedly stole E3.8 million from their business.

Jaime Manuel Machado Da Silva, who is a Director and owner of Magnum Panel Beaters & Spray Painters in Manzini, has since filed divorce proceedings against his wife, Ana Paula Fonseca, with whom he has been married for 45 years.
He mentioned that his wife managed to steal the money from the business because she was the one responsible for accounts in their company.

The sobbing businessman further alleged that Fonseca also kicked him out of their house at Madonsa Township in Manzini to stay with another man.
“I am currently staying in a rented flat at Mobeni as after she left for Maputo with her boyfriend, they leased out the house,” said Da Silva as he wiped away tears using a handkerchief.
Da Silva, who was weeping almost throughout his submission, told the court that he also discovered that his wife sold some of his property for E500 000 without his consent.

He alleged that after having stolen the money and sold the property, she relocated to Mozambique with her boyfriend.
“I only learnt that the property had been sold after a woman, who claimed to be a purchaser, approached me.  I did not consent to the sale of the property,” he submitted.
Judge Mabuza told him that there was no problem with him crying as the court was used to that, although in most instances it was women who cried.

Attorneys

The Portuguese national (Da Silva) was being led in evidence by his lawyer, Thulani Sibandze, from Rodrigues Attorneys in Manzini.
Initially, it was his wife who had filed divorce proceedings against the businessman.
In his counterclaim, the businessman narrated that the parties were married to each other on November 21, 1971 in Maputo, Mozambique in community of property and the said marriage still subsists. He mentioned that from the marriage, two children were born.

“During the subsistence of the marriage with the intention of terminating and straining it, the plaintiff (wife) has behaved in such a manner as to make life with her intolerable.

Humiliated

“She forcefully kicked me out of our matrimonial home and habitually humiliated me by using vulgar and abusive language towards my customers and employees at our workplace,” alleged the businessman.
He submitted that the wife allegedly became physically violent some time in December 2006 and she once stabbed him in the shoulder with a sharp object.

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