State prosecutors have initiated the process of exploring the legal grounds to discharge the businessperson Osward Lutepo implicated to have had a hand in the plot to shoot budget director Paul Mphwiyo, following the key witness withdrawing his sworn affidavit in court. According to court documents sourced by Nyasa Times, an affidavit sworn in by […]
Millions of public money is going down the drain in 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 […]
Fiscal Police officer in charge Yacks Bonongwe has said many people have responded positively to the public to help them trace properties that were bought using cashgate money. He said many people are informing the law enforcers on Cashgate property and bank account and that the response has been ” overwhelming, .” Bonongwe said Fiscal Police […]
Malawi prosecutors have applied to court for seizure warrants for property connected to Cashgate belonging a former junior civil servant Victor Sithole who is currently serving a nine years jail term with hard labour for his part in the “cashgate” corruption scandal. Former accounts assistant Sithole was found guilty of stealing more than $66,000 in […]
Businessperson and Cashgate suspect Osward Lutepo has been as been ordered to undergo a mental examination to determine if he is medically fit for trial in the various charges he is facing which include theft, money laundering and conspiracy to commit murder. According to the ruling sourced by Nyasa Times, Justice Redson Kapindu made the order in the High Court in […]
Eighteen months after Cashgate hit the headlines in Malawi, only five of the 68 people arrested in connection with the scandal have been tried and convicted. About R2.1-million – less than one percent of the estimated loss to government – has been recovered. An investigation by Mail and Guardian (amaBhungane) also revealed that neither the […]
The US government says it is still immature to make a conclusive remark on whether the government is making any progress on how it is dealing with the cash scandal. The new American Ambassador to Malawi, Virginia Palmer told reporters during a cocktail in Blantyre on Thursday that the US government is currently still watching. […]
The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday arrested Tapiwa Ruth Ng’oma who was working as an Accountant at the Accountant General’s Department for allegedely dafrauding government. Ng’oma has been arrested on suspicion of defrauding government about K9, 179,620.00 through the systematic scheme dubbed Cashgate. This is second arrest the Bureau has made this month in relation to Cashgate. […]
Businessperson Angela Katengeza, who owns Faith Construction, has told Lilongwe High Court that former deputy director in the Ministry of Tourism, Leonard Kalonga approached her to use the construction certificates of her company, to get jobs within the Ministry of Tourism. The two were found with a case to answer by High Court in Lilongwe […]
Malawi’s Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister, Goodall Gondwe, has said government will close the special accounts for the army and police. Gondwe said in parliament when opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Lilongwe Msozi South, Vitus Dzoole Mwale, asked government to open a special account for parliament “as it the same with the […]
So Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale wanted The Nation jailed for merely telling Malawians what they needed to know? For the record, The Nation’s crime – according to Kachale – was to tell the world that Chief Cashgater Oswald Lutepo had some neurotic issues. How that begins to be criminal only Mme Kachale […]
Lawyer for Pika Manondo, one of the accused in the assassination attempt of former Malawi’s Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo, has accused the media of misrepresenting the court proceedings in order to sell the papers. Writing on the timeline of his Facebook Timeline, John Gift Mwakhawa said he had so far avoided commenting on the case; […]
The High Court in Lilongwe hearing the former budget director Paul Mphwiyo’s attempted murder case adjourned to the middle of March when it will resume hearing further evidence from the prosecution. I am aware of the remits of not commenting on matters which are court. This is a long standing rule but having recently followed […]
Browsing through an article by a guest journalist J. Bradford Delong published in the ‘Daily Times’ of the 7th of January entitled ‘Try Everything’ several issues left me introspective and reflecting. However what crossed my mind most was the spelling out by renowned economists of doom for the global economy that might incidentally be headed […]
Private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker told the High Court in Lilongwe in the ongoing trial into the shooting of former ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo that she was persuaded by Kasambara’s wife not to talk about the former justice minister’s alleged involvement in the attempted murder. But the defence lawyers in […]
This is getting interesting! The shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has always been feared to have been a result of a corrupt deal turned sour and the ongoing trial is bringing some interesting information lending credence to that with the latest being lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker revealing her former boss and […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested a Lilongwe-based businessman, Jimmy Mbuliro for allegedly defrauding government. Mbuliro’s case is latest in a series of arrests ACB has made since 2013 under the public graft scandal also known as Cashgate. ACB Senior Public Relations Officer’ Egrita Ndala said Mbuliro was arrested following a tip-off. ”On 5th […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) head surgeon Dr Carlos Valera said the assailant who shot former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo might have used a weaker gun in their attempted murder plot. Valera, who is the sixth state prosecution witness, told the court, presided over by Justice Michael Mtambo, when he was testifying in court on Wednesday. Two […]