Former Accountant General David Kandoje, who was arrested last Thursday for allegedly authorizing payment of two cheques amounting to K500million to Staddal Building contractors without appropriate documents, was on Tuesday granted bail by the Lilongwe High Court. The High Court granted bail to Kandoje on cash bond of K5 million after he was charged on two […]
Judge Micheal Mtambo presiding the case in the shooting of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo was not available on Monday for the trial and the case was adjourned to April 7. Mtambo was outside the country, according to judicially spokesperson Mlenga Mvula. “It was discussed between both parties that the […]
At the Women In Parliaments Global Forum Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, former Malawian President Joyce Banda spoke exclusively with EurActiv’s Rick Zednik about the support she received from EU officials in rebuilding her country’s economy. “For the past 15 years, corruption had been going on, 30 percent of our resources were being stolen,” Banda […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested former Accountant General David Kandoje, one of the key officers in the ongoing Capital Hill cashgate investigation. ACB confirmed the arrest of Kandoje. “We have arrested Mr Kandoje on cashgate related issues. We are interested to question him,” ACB spokesperson Egritta Ndala told Nyasa Times on Thursday. She said […]
There is no case for alarm. This is an assurance coming from Deputy Registrar of the High Court Justus Kishindo who has said the Judiciary has all information and records records on the shooting of Malawi’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and money laundering (cashgate) intact despite a court clerk claiming she […]
Case records on the shooting of Malawi’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and money laundering (cashgate) has gone missing with a court clerk claiming she has been robbed of the recorders and other documents involving various cashgate cases. The court clerk claimed thieves have made away with two recorders that contain court […]
The International Monetary Fund has said after it resolved to immediately disburse about $18.1 million (K7.6 billion) to Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest economies , that new government of President Peter Mutharika has committed to rebuild trust in public institutions after the 2013 cashgate scandal saw the country losing about K20 billion r of public […]
The State has asked the court in Lilongwe to withdraw application of forfeiture for part of property on former government accounts assistant Victor Sithole, convicted and jailed of being found in possession of stolen money and illegal possession of forex. Sithole is serving jail after the Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court found him guilty on the three […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) president Lazarous Chakwera has registered concerns on the slow progress of wheels of justice to the plunder of public money and want action on K92 billion DPP-era cashgate and about K20 billion which grew wings from public coffers under People’s Party rule from April to September 2013, as was revealed by […]
A revolver which was allegedly supposed to be used in the shooting of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo was Friday tendered to the High Court in the capital Lilongwe by police investigators. Mphwiyo was shot during the night of September 13, 2013 outside his house in Lilongwe. His shooting opened […]
The Lilongwe High Court on Wednesday granted bail to private practice lawyer Yambani Mulemba on charges bordering on facilitating money laundering in connection with former budget director Paul Mphwiyo. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Mulemba of Knight and Knights law firm on Monday on charges bordering on facilitating money laundering. Justice Esme Chombo granted the bail in […]
Barely a week after Nyasa Times unravelled a syndicate at Information Ministry that is ripping off government revenue by using government equipment for their personal benefit, fresh investigations show officers in the Technical Section of the ministry has been pocketing illegal allowances whenever they are carrying out their core duties. Nyasa Times sources within the […]
Law enforcing agencies on Monday arrested Yambani Mulemba, a lawyer by profession, who is linked to the money laundering charge of the country’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and his wife Thandi. Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officers said said they want to quiz Mulemba on allegations that he collected US70, 000 dollars from Mphwiyo’s […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Francis Kasaila has defended the bogus vehicle maintenance of unserviceable and uneconomic vehicles by various ministries and departments in what some sources at Capital Hill has described as another form of “Cashgate” which is benefitting officers on one hand and dubious private garages on the other while ripping off […]
The former Ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo will not evade justice in theft and money laundering case, his lawyer has contended after the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has turned down his application to travel to South Africa for medical aid. Mphwiyo applied to the bureau to be allowed to travel to South Africa […]
Cashgate convict Maxwell Namata will face trial on new charges together with his wife Alice Namata and Robert Nantchito, the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said. Namata was convicted and currently is serving a prison sentence of eight years after being found guilty of money laundering and theft in relation to the plunder of public […]
Millions of money that was supposedly to go into government coffers is going into the pocket of a senior official and his selected cohorts in a very systematic and coordinated manner in which the officer uses state Public Address System and personnel to milk the Ministry of Information of its much needed revenue, Nyasa Times […]
Press reports on Friday indicated that K47 million in taxpayers money has allegedly been siphoned by officials through payments to ghost workers at Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development the principal secretary Erica Maganga confirmed the embezzlement of funds. The fresh cashgate involves five accounts assistants, three of them working at the ministry headquarters […]