Malawi College of Accountancy lecturer arrested over cashgate

A Malawi College of Accountancy lecturer, Dr. Auxius Kazombo Mwale was on Sunday arrested by Fiscal and Fraud Police Unit (FFU) in Lilongwe in for allegedly being in cashgate scandal.

Mwale: Arrested over cashgate
Mwale: Arrested over cashgate

National Fiscal and Fraud Police deputy head, Senior Superintendent Gerald Kachiwanda could not deny or confirm the arrest when contacted.

”Just know that there are many cashgate cases and we will pursue them all”.

Mwale’s arrest came just a day after former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo was arrested by FFU police in connection to his alleged involvement in the cashgate scandal.

Mphwiyo is accused of siphoning over K3 billion of public funds from Capitol Hill in Lilongwe.

Mphwiyo’s arrest comes three months after he was fingered out as the mastermind of the theft and money laundering of public funds amounting to K20 billion.

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in August told High Court in Lilongwe that Mphwiyo was the main architect of the scandal that forced the country’s main donors to pull out.

And cashgate convict, Leonard Kalonga, former assistant director of tourism at Ministry of Tourism also named Mphwiyo as the brain behind the looting of public funds at the Capital Hill.

In 2013, the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo led to revelations of the plunder of public resources at Capital Hill.

Former president Joyce Banda ordered an audit which British forensic auditor, Baker Tilly, undertook between April and September 2013 which established that about K24 billion was siphoned from public coffers through dubious payments, inflated invoices and goods or services never rendered.

In May this year, a financial analysis report by audit and business advisory firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) also established that about K577 billion in public funds could not be reconciliated between 2009 and December 31 2014.

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21 replies on “Malawi College of Accountancy lecturer arrested over cashgate”

  1. ife tinathawa umphawi pano tili ku theba kugwira ntchito zomwe zikadatukula lathu dziko. kuzunzika. abale athu kumalawiko kumudziko tikufunako koma mantha atigwira ndizomwe zikunvekazi……… tidzingogwirabe ukayidiwu kuno.

  2. Kodi azingomangidwa osalandidwa kena kake?? ali ndi chuma chambiri chooneka osatengako manyumba ndi ma house ooneka wa bwanji??? mcheew imandikweza dpp bwanji nkhani imeneyi kunali kungoauza apange surrender chumacho coz olo akasekeredwe 20years azidyabe money yakubayitu

  3. Why don’t you arrest Radison Mwadiwa- Former Secretary to the Treasury. Newby Kumwembe, Dalitso Kabambe, Charled Tchuka etc.

  4. don’t waste our time reading fake stories.kumangomanga anthu chifukwa chowawonerera. akuba eni eniwo mukuwawopa. za zii.

  5. kodi inu a ACB mpongozi wawo wa a Lipenga aku mangochi kuno Alexander Makina yemwenso makolo ake amakhala konkuno, mfana oyipa wakuba bad mummanga liti. Poti iye ndi amene anali conduit pakati pa mphwiyo ndi amayi. kapenatu ingokhala mob justice- zimatiwawatu ife mafana amene aja akamanjoya ndi dollar yokuba ndikumaoneka ngati a mzeru heavy.

  6. The fear I have is that the more Mphwiyo is pushed to the ground the more the top big guns will be apprehended. kwendenayo!!!!!!

  7. Alomwe Nophiya……Nanga kulemba kumeneku….tiziti journalism yotani imeneyi…..a Lomwe zonse kumakukanikani…naga kulemba nkhani kumeneku…titati tikuchongeni ndiye ndi 3 pa 10 tu..no wonder mukukonda kota system.

  8. Nkhani munayamba bwinobwino koma komalizako ndi mphwiyo this mphwiyo that….

    Takambani za lecture yu timve chomwe waba…..

    fokofu journalism.

  9. The man we supposed to be trusted because is the sprikler of knowledge to our nation,now is wast of knowledge because of his bad behavior practice.
    Arrest him, fresh brain is coming to take his position, don’t worry student I am coming there.

  10. apa bola zikuyendako.phwiyo nde mwini firm mu nkhani yonse ya cashgate,ndipo ayenera kuphedwa basi,anali ndi mwayi anapulumuka ndi mfuti.waphetsa anthu ambiri muzipatala ameneyo.aphedwe baso osati kuseweza ndende ayi

  11. Kodi iwe Maurice Nkawihe sukulu ya journalism unaphunzila kuti? Waika heading yoti MCA lecturer arrested. Then you have one line about the person who’s been arrested and thats it. Thereafter its Mphwiyo, Kalonga, Baker Tilly, Pwc and nothing about the MCA official!!
    Learn to collect as much information as possible on the story you are writing!!! If I was your lecturer I would have given you a 0 out of 10. Mxiii

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