Chief cashgate suspect and businessman, Oswald Lutepo, does not cease to amaze. On Friday, November 21, he spoke to Zodiak Broadcasting Station from his alleged ‘hiding’ place. As expected, Mr. Lutepo subjected Malawians to his now familiar narrative about cashgate and the people that he thinks must be involved. This time round, his victim is […]
Malawi government on Monday issued a media statement hitting back at former ruling Peoples Party (PP) and its leadership for alleging that President Peter Mutharika induced cashgate main suspect, Oswald Lutepo to implicate former president Joyce Banda in the scandal but later withdrew the statement without giving reasons and resubmitted it. Lutepo in a Zodiak […]
Arrested former budget director Paul Mphwiyo is ill and is being watched by police at the hospital where he is being treated for heart problems. Mphwiyo was arrested Friday by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), in a joint operation with the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), together with businessperson Shiraz Ferreira and Nelson Johannes Kauwa of Thuso […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has rejected claims by Peoples Party (PP) that chief Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo is acting on instructions from President Peter Mutharika after a meeting to drag former president Joyce Banda into the plunder of the public purse. Speaking in an interview on Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) on Sunday, PP […]
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem”-Ronald Reagan Last Tuesday it pleased President Peter Mutharika to invite the Muckraker and a horde of his type to wine and dine with him at the hilltop edifice of Sanjika Palace Hastings Kamuzu Banda bequeathed to the nation. Of […]
It must be quite a nightmare to be Oswald Lutepo’s lawyer. You see, the guy is all over the place pleading ‘not guilty’ today while tomorrow he is making statements owning up to all the crimes he is alleged to have committed. And he goes all over the place implicating just about everyone. Of course […]
People’s Party of former president Joyce Banda has accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of using businessman Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in the systematic plunder of government money, dubbed ‘cashgate’, to slander Banda and drag her in the matter “to divert attention” to the country’s ailing economy. Lutepo gave an interview on Zodiak Broadcasting […]
Malawi legal commentator Professor Danwood Chirwa has said businessman and chief cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo is not in contempt of court in granting an exclusive interview with the radio to comment on his cases under court consideration but that he is choosing inappropriate forums -the media – for his confessions. Lutepo gave an interview on […]
Lutepo claims JB was main beneficiary of cashgate JB says allegations are false, malicious Lutepo is being used as a pawn to drag JB into cashgate There are written confessions on implicating JB K92bn cashgate should not be swept under the carpet Malawi former president Joyce Banda has denied allegations made by chief suspect […]
The former President of the Republic of Malawi, Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda, wishes to categorically deny allegations, in their totality, made by Mr. Oswald Lutepo that while she was Head of State, Dr. Banda was the “main beneficiary” of the money Mr. Lutepo allegedly stole from Government. Mr. Lutepo claims, in an interview aired […]
Cashgate scandal that has seen billions of kwacha looted at Capital Hill at the expense of the general populace has now taken a new twist with media trial as businessman and chief suspects in the Cashgate scandal, Oswald Lutepo, has gone on radio to accept wrong doing in the case and implicate former president Joyce Banda. Lutepo […]
It never rains but pours for former Ministry of Finance Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo who was Friday rearrested together with businessman Nelson Kauwa of South African-based Thuso Group. Nyasa Times understands that the suspects have been arrested on tax issues. Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) deputy director responsible for corporate affairs, Steve Kapoloma, confirmed the arrests. […]
There is a new man at the helm of the European Union Delegation to Malawi. He is Marchel Gerrmann, a Dutch national. Gerrmann, who is also the Ambassador of the EU, comes at a time Western donor nations and agencies have suspended budgetary support to Malawi in reaction to ‘cashgate’, the systematic plunder of public […]
Court proceedings on a cashgate case involving businessperson Oswald Lutepo failed to resume at the High Court in Zomba following the Judiciary support staff strike currently taking place in the country. Lutepo is being accused of theft and laundering K2.1 billion believed to have been obtained in the plunder of government funds popularly referred to […]
“If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it” – original Murphy’s Law “If anything can possibly go wrong, it will go wrong. And usually at the worst time.” – variation of Murphy’s Law The last breath of hope […]
Former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara has written the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mary Kachale urging the State to re examine the facts so far alleged and decide whether Kasambara, lawyer Wapona Kita and businessman Pika Manondo indeed have a case that they ought to be prosecuted for. Kasambara in a letter sent to […]
Malawi government is at risk of refunding the World Bank money amounting to K43 Million which is reported to have been mismanaged. World Bank provided the Malawi government with the funding for the purpose of carrying out Public Works Programmes in two districts of Dowa and Phalombe. While confirming the fears of paying back the […]
Getrude Lutepo, wife to chief cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo was picked by Fiscal Police in Blantyre on Wednesday for interrogation on her husband’s involvement in the scam, as Nyasa Times recently reported that Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) had threatened an arrest on her and Lutepo’s daughter. The top prosecutor warned Lutepo that he risks […]