Malawi’s self-enriching officials need to know they will be judged not just by an imperfect judicial system, but by generation upon future generation of their compatriots. High-level corruption has long been endemic in Malawi, but two important changes provide promising signs of this being challenged. The first is the attitude of President Peter Mutharika towards the […]
“His [Lutepo’s] declaration statement raises the issues of political party financing, this is a good governance issue. From the evidence provided we have also known that People’s Party gave K11 million to one of the Malawi Congress Party [MCP] presidential candidates to disturb MCP election and convention and influence the outcome.” – Mrs Kachale, Director […]
Suspected shooter of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, Macdonald Kumwembe, has asked High Court judge Michael Mtambo to recuse himself from continuing with the case, alleging bias and that has demonstrated to have a personal vendetta against his co-accused person, former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara. In court affidavit […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale has maintained her stand that the State is dealing with mafia-like operations in the case of the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and has asked the High Court to revoke the bail of former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe , claiming […]
Former Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier Macdonald Kumwembe defending himself on all charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder on former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has named his list of witnesses to take stand including former president Joyce Banda. Other witnesses are politicians Hophmally Makande and Friday Jumbe, Chifundo Chikaphupha, Eric Mambucha, Robert […]
Director of Public Prosecution Mary Kachale told High Court in Zomba in Malawi that stolen from government in cashgate scandal was used to fund the then governing People’s Party (PP) election campaign and also a presidential aspirant of Malawi Congress Party [MCP]. Kachale also commended Lutepo for his disclosure in the declaration statement which she […]
Standard Bank of Malawi has been ordered by High Court to produce cheque images that show transactions carried on the accounts of companies owned by cashgate convict Oswald Lutepo between April and October 2013 identifying those that benefited from the infamous cashgate scandal. The principal beneficiaries Lutepo, whose companies accounted for K4.2 billion (($7.5 million)of […]
Prosecutors in the cashgate case involving convicted businessman Oswald Lutepo has appealed to Judge Redson Kapindu to infuse stiff sentence to the convict dismissing mitigation factors by his defence lawyer seeking a lenient one year jail but suspended. Lutepo’s lawyer, Oswald Mtupila, on Monday pleaded for leniency, before Judge Kapindu at High Court registry in Zomba. […]
Businessperson Angela Katengeza, who was co-charged with a former assistant director of tourism at Ministry of Tourism, Leonard Kalonga in the K105.9 million money laundering case is maintaining her innocence by sticking to ‘not guilty’ plea despite Kalonga admitting wrong-doing. According to court statement by an investigator in the Fiscal Department of the Malawi Police […]
Malawi should establish a political party funding regulatory body which should look at the main sources of funding for political parties and the rules applying to their use, Patrick Zeus Phambala, a Lilongwe-based political and social commentator, has proposed. Malawi parties are mainly financed by “well-wishers” who happen to enjoy government business – mostly dubiously […]
Former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, who is facing charges of theft and money laundering of K2.1 billion ($4.7 million), has been fingered as cashgate ‘mastermind’, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale told High Court in Lilongwe after presenting an affidavit of convicted Leonard Kalonga, former assistant director of tourism at Ministry of Tourism. Kalonga […]
Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) Governor, Charles Chuka, risks arrest among other “big fishes” in the continued crackdown of the country’s worst corruption scandal known as Cashgate, Nyasa Times understands. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale told High Court in Lilongwe that the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Accountant General, Financial Intelligence […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale told High Court in Lilongwe during the conviction of former chief tourism officer in the Ministry of Tourism, Leonard Kalonga, who pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering, wrote her office narrating the cashgate scheme. In plea bargain, Kalonga accepted wrong-doing to three charges of conspiracy to defraud […]
On Tuesday, August 18, Allan Ntata delivered his widely publicized public lecture on curtailing corruption and released his long awaited Cash-gate analysis report entitled, “From a Looting to a Kill: Analysing a Legacy of Institutionalized Corruption in Malawi.” The report was built on facts gathered from his previous Cash-gate report, “Licence to Loot” which exposed […]
Former chief tourism officer Leonard Karonga has pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering related to cashgate scandal and has implicated former budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Lilongwe High Court Judge, Justice Fiona Mwale has since convicted him. In his plea after admitting to defrauding government about K3.7 billion, Kalonga told the court that Mphwiyo told […]
Malawi is now a ‘mafia’ state as National Intelligence Services officer are now making revelations that government is behind organising and funding some of the criminal attacks for political reasons, saying chief spy Nicholous Dausi has the knowledge of all the attacks. State spies who are sources of Nyasa Times have revealed that Dausi, apart […]
German Ambassador Peter Woeste has said the burglary into the house of a high-ranking German official handling the K557 billion forensic audit of government coffers could be politically motivated possibly to defeat justice. Published reports indicated that thugs broke into the house of the official who is working on financial management system reforms where they […]
Governance activist and anti-corruption campaigner, Z. Allan Ntata has released his ‘Looting to Kill’ report and exonerated the finance ministry’s then budget director Paul Mphwiyo in the “cashgate” corruption scandal, saying the gun-shot survivor was wrongly fingered in his Cashgate report ‘Licence to Loot’ in 2013 . Mphwiyo is facing charges of theft and money laundering […]