High Court in Lilongwe has formally charged former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo and 17 others with charges related to the looting of government money worth MK2.446,817.49 from 1st April 2013 to 30th July 2013 known as cashgate scandal. Mphwiyo, who was arrested by fiscal police on Saturday, appeared in court Wednesday with […]
Graft busting body, the Anti Corruprion Bureau (ACB) has hired the services of experienced prosecuting lawyer Kamudoni Nyasulu to help with cashgate cases. ACB’s Egritta Ndala confirmed the former Director of public prosecutions has signed a one year contract with the ACB. Kamudoni could not be reached for comment but he has prosecuted some of […]
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. 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 […]
The list of those arrested in Cashgate crimes so far reads like a roll-call of high-profile people as former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and three other suspected Auzius Kazombo Mwale, Clemence Mmadzi and Roosevelt Ndovi charged with seven counts. The four are jointly being accused of defrauding about K2.4 billion in 2013 […]
Former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo has been arrested by fiscal police in Lilongwe in connection to his alleged involvement in the cashgate scandal. He 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 […]
Emmanuel Yesaya , one of the accused person in which 13 other people, among them government accountants and a private sector individual, are accused of allegedly conspiring to steal K201 million ($358,929) from government in 2011, did not take a plea on his alleged role in the scam after his lawyer raised preliminary objection as […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate court will pass sentence on November 17 to businessperson Esnart Nenani Ndovi following her conviction on her own plea of guilty over a Cashgate transaction amounting to K12.9 million ($23,035). He is now on remand in prison. After her own plea, the court convicted Ndovi on charges of money laundering which attracts […]
Suspect Esnart Nenani Ndovi has pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering K12.9m from the government in August 2013 and is convicted by Lilongwe Magistrate Court on her own plea. She took plea of ‘guilty’ before senior resident magistrate Patrick Chirwa. Nenani Ndovi accepted wrong-doing for “lending certificate for personation” to Oddei Kamanga, a public […]
Wyson Dzinyemba Soko serving his seven and half years imprisonment for ‘cashgate’ offences was back in court on Wednesday morning, appeared before presiding judge, Justice Lloyd Muhara for appeal hearing against his conviction and sentence. The former Deputy Youth Director for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) was on 28th January this year handed a prison sentence after being found guilty […]
Government has admitted that there is widespread abuse of funds in district councils, the ministry of local government has confirmed. The ministry’s principal secretary Chris Kang’ombe said on Monday in Ntcheu that there was “need for transparency and accountability in handling government resources in districts.” Kang’ombe spoke during an orientation session for Ntcheu District Council […]
In a dramatic turn of events in the ongoing attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder ‘cashgate’ case, former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe and Pika Manondo have advised the High Court that they no longer need former president Joyce Banda as their ‘witnesses’ as suggested earlier, Nyasa Times understands. The two are […]
Nkhunzo James Bandura Chirwa of Zonzoma civil engineering contractors , who was working as Quantity surveyor in government, a suspect in cashgate scandal, on Monday pleaded guilty to the charges of siphoning government money up to K513 million. He pleaded guilty before High Court judge Ivy Kamanga who convicted him on his own plea. When […]
Chief Cashgate convict Oswald Lutepo has appealed against the 11 year jail sentence handed down to him by the Zomba High Court on conspiracy to defraud government and money laundering, Nyasa Times has established. In September, Judge Redson Kapindu imposed a stiff jail term on Lutepo who was convicted on his own plea of guilty […]
A special investigation of the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC), conducted by the Central Internal Audit Unit of the Ministry of Finance, uncovered rampant mismanagement of public resources at the electoral body, Nyasa Times has established. The report Reference No 1A/270/15/0018, issued on August 7, 2015, […]
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee continues meeting in Lilongwe to try to get to the bottom of the matter of K572 billion presumed stolen from public coffers. The auditor general’s report shows the money went missing from 2009 to 2014 spanning two presidential administrations of late Bingu wa Mutharika and Joyce Banda. Chairman of the Public […]
The sentencing phase has started for former chief tourism officer Leonard Karonga convicted on his own guilty plea to three counts of money laundering related to cashgate scandal with Judge Fiona Mwale asking the defence and State to make mitigation submission. When the case came before Lilongwe High Court judge Mwale for mention, the judge […]
Lutepo was a young successful businessman and thus contributed positively, for a while at least, to the Malawian economy. He was a first offender. He had pleaded guilty and implicated others in Cashgate crimes. Yet Justice Kapindu still imposed an effective prison sentence of 11 years – 8years for the offence of money laundering and […]
High Court in Lilongwe will summon Malawi’s immediate past president Joyce Banda to testify in the shooting of budget director Paul Mphwiyo case including others who have been mentioned during the trial. The case is on a stage where former Justice Minister Raphael Kasambara, Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe are defending themselves after the court […]