"I paid Patrick Nyaruwata $3 million and (another) $3 million to Andy Mhlanga by cheque for the arrangement," a St Marnock’s spokesman told the Financial Gazette yesterday.
He said under the agreement, the two war veterans were supposed to receive a further $6 million from the sale of a wheat crop, which the Hales and the war veterans would grow partly at St Marnock’s and Bradfields, with the war veterans providing their own inputs.
But the deal fell through after the war veterans failed to ensure that operations at St Marnock’s were not disrupted as agreed under the deal.
There was no immediate comment from Mhlanga, but Nyaruwata yesterday denied extorting money from the farmers, saying the $6 million that was paid to him and Mhlanga was from the proceeds of a soyabean crop that the war veterans had planted together with the Hale brothers at Bradfields farm.
He said the farmers still owed him and Mhlanga outstanding money from the proceeds of the sale.
"I’m surprised at these allegations," he said. "We’re actually looking for them because they have reneged on another arrangement that we had to grow wheat together. Instead, they are actually sabotaging the farm."
He said under the agreement, the two war veterans were supposed to receive a further $6 million from the sale of a wheat crop, which the Hales and the war veterans would grow partly at St Marnock’s and Bradfields, with the war veterans providing their own inputs.
But the deal fell through after the war veterans failed to ensure that operations at St Marnock’s were not disrupted as agreed under the deal.
There was no immediate comment from Mhlanga, but Nyaruwata yesterday denied extorting money from the farmers, saying the $6 million that was paid to him and Mhlanga was from the proceeds of a soyabean crop that the war veterans had planted together with the Hale brothers at Bradfields farm.
He said the farmers still owed him and Mhlanga outstanding money from the proceeds of the sale.
"I’m surprised at these allegations," he said. "We’re actually looking for them because they have reneged on another arrangement that we had to grow wheat together. Instead, they are actually sabotaging the farm."