Allegations of fraud at Malawi Embassies abroad are embarrassingly tarnishing the image of the DPP-led government of President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika. While the issues about fraud at the Malawi Mission in Addis Ababa and other missions have not been fully resolved, the very controlling officer of the line Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International […]
The Lilongwe High Court has thrown out an appeal case of cashgate convict Esnart Nenani Ndovie and maintain the three years prison sentence meted by Lilongwe Senior resident magistrate Patrick Chirwa was in due proportion. Businessperson Ndovi was convicted on her own plea of guilty over a Cashgate transaction amounting to K12.9 million ($23,035). Ndovi was […]
The Lilongwe High Court Judge Dr Michael Mtambo has disclosed that judgement in the case in which former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara SC and McDonald Kumwembe who are being co accused of conspiring to murder former Malawi budget director Paul Mphwiyo, will be delivered July 21. Judge Mtambo has set the date to deliver his […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ordered the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) to produce and surrender copies of documents ceased from Cashgate convict and former deputy director for tourism Leonard Kalonga within 72 hours which Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale said has names of beneficiaries of K4.4 billion ($5.8 million) Cashgate proceeds. Justice […]
Cashgate is still alive and taking different form of existence. Nyasa Times has uncovered a multibillion Kwacha corruption scandal where cabinet ministers are involved in illegally ‘brokering’ a deal between the Malawi Defence Forces (MDF) and Ashok Leyland, an Indian automobile manufacturing company, with the latter negotiating to supply 500 units to MDF. Nyasa Times […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has warned effects of the infamous K30 billion plunder of public resources at Capital Hill dubbed cashgate is likely to affect the economy for the next 13 years. “The IMF has told me the effects will be here for the next 13 years,” said Mutharika. He was speaking in Chitipa at […]
Lilongwe High Court has Tuesday sentenced cashgate convict Angella Katengeza to five years imprisonment over the role in the K105.9 million (about $157 000) laundered from the government coffers. Katengeza was charged alongside former assistant director of tourism, Leonard Kalonga, for conspiring to use the former’s Faith Construction Company to defraud government. High Court judge […]
Former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander, General Henry Odillo, who was arrested in May 2015 over a multi-million dollar corruption allegation were on Friday taken to court but failed to take plea. Odillo and his former deputy, Lt Col Clement Kafuwa, are accused of arranging a contract to supply military equipment to Thuso Investments, which […]
Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times Malawi’s Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa has assured that the K577 billion plunder of public money between 2009 and 2013 spanning two political administrations is on track. His comments come after Malawians start losing hope in the public auditors’ office following reports that the Peter Mutharika administration was frustrating the audit […]
A politician and an academician have said theft of public money at Capital Hill, the seat of government in Lilongwe, will continue in different forms of ‘cashgate’ unless Malawians rise up and make protests to send a strong message to the government to take stern action against the culprits. George Nnesa of Mafunde party said […]
Malawi government has suspended its two top officers at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for allegedly intimidating a member of the audit team who are currently auditing the Malawian Embassy in Ethiopia following revelations that K293 million was siphoned out of the public purse and deposited into personal accounts. Theft of public resources at […]
The Lilongwe High Court has set the last week of the month of June as the tentative day presiding judge Blantyre-based Michael Mtambo will deliver the ruling in the case where former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and four others are accused of attempting to murder former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul […]
Private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara – Senior Counsel – one of the accused in the Paul Mphwiyo shooting case on Tuesday quizzed rebuttal witnesses paraded by State prosecutors. Kasambara is accused of conspiring to murder former budget director Mphwiyo alongside former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe and businessperson Pika Manondo who also face […]
Malawi government has expressed worry and concern that the loot at its mission in Addis Ababa has drastically gone up to K293 million from K24 million initial investigations showed, Foreign Affairs minister Francis Kasaira said this on Thursday. “This was a well crafted operation. When we sent them remittances, they would withdraw them and put […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ordered the government to take possession of six buses which have been parked at the police headquarters for close to two years now. Judge Fiona Mwale’s judgment on Wednesday means the government can sell off the buses or use for other purposes. High Court spokesperson Mlenga Mvula said the […]
Ministry of Health has confirmed the report by Nyasa Times of the existence of a National Audit Office (NAO) audit report chronologizing on how some dishonest officials from the ministry managed to loot the donated funds from the US- funded Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and that K2.5billion was looted between 2013 and […]
Officials from the Auditor general have refused to endorse claims by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament that money plundered during the Bingu wa Mutharika era has risen from K577 billion to K1 trillion. Spokesperson for the office Lawrence Chinkhunda flatly refused to comment on the claims by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) deputy chairperson […]
Malawi Parliament says it has found new leads in the K577 billion cashgate during the Bingu wa Mutharika reign and this will delay the presentation of the report in the National Assembly. Deputy chairperson of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Kamlepo Kalua said in an interview on Tuesday that new leads are pointing to misuse of […]