Three Zimbabwean telecom businessmen charged with selling state secrets to the United States, Canada and Afghanistan were granted bail by a magistrate's court, state radio reported Tuesday.

"Simba Mangwende and Farai Rwodzi have been granted $2,000 (1,500 euros) bail each and Oliver Chiku their co-accused was granted $700 bail," said the report.

The three were ordered to surrender their passports to the court and to report twice a week to police.

"... we have already paid the $2,000 bail," Rwodzi's lawyer Lewis Uriri told AFP.

The three allegedly leaked official secrets the United States, Canada and Afghanistan, and schemed to install communication equipment at an undisclosed location without regulatory authority.

Mangwende and Rwodzi are executives of Africom Holdings while Chiku is an executive of a company called Global Satellite System.

If convicted, they face up to 25 years in prison.