An inquiry into the illegal sale of State land in urban areas is now 60 percent complete and so far, 75 land barons have been arrested for fraud, theft of trust funds and other corruption-related offences.

Government appointed a commission to probe the irregular sale of State land in and around urban areas in February this year.

It is chaired by Supreme Court judge, Justice Tendai Uchena.

The commission’s findings will be given to President Mnangagwa.

Of the 75 suspects, 25 have appeared in court and their cases are still pending.

Parallel to the public hearings, the chief investigator in the commission of inquiry, Superintendent Godfree Muza and his team was instituting criminal probe where prima facie evidence points to a criminal offence.

Addressing a Press conference in Harare yesterday, Justice Uchena said the commission had covered six provinces where investigations had been conducted on 79 farms.

“Therefore we have made inquiries on 79 urban State land units or farms. Currently, we are working on producing reports for the six provinces we have covered.