The case in which renowned lawyer Ralph Kasambara, businessman Pika and his elder brother Dauka, Robert Kadzuwa and Mac Donald Kumwembe are charged of allegedly conspiring and attempting to kill former Malawi Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo, whose shooting on 13 September 2013 led to the unravelling of the systematic looting of millions of government money […]
Malawi’s graft-busting body deputy director and prosecutor Reyneck Matemba has said he is a victim of death threats related to the cashgate crackdown, saying other two officials are also living dangerously. The other two officials receiving death threats are Kondwani Zulu and Vilera Liwonde who are Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigators. “Yes I have been […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court has been asked not to jail Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy director of youth Wyson Zinyemba Soko who was found guilty of theft and money laundering for his involvement in the ongoing financial scandal dubbed “Cashgate” that saw millions of dollars looted from the impoverished country’s government. Soko’s fate lies in the […]
An IT expert in United States says there’s no doubt about the authenticity of the Cashgate report containing names of individuals and companies allegedly involved in the plunder of government resources at Capital Hill. Doubters claimed the report released by Malawi government last week had been altered but US based software expert James Knox-Davies in […]
Like many aid-dependent countries in the developing world, Malawi cannot balance its books without donor support, which makes up as much as 40% of the national budget. Yet because of the ongoing nightmare of an unprecedented corruption scandal, known as “Cashgate”, it faces a massive suspension of aid directly to its government. In the face […]
Former Malawi Police Deputy Inspector General Nelson Bophani Standard bank account which had his pension money has been frozen by t he Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Bophani was also chairing the Investigation Committee, a multi-agency special unit that initiated the probe on the “cashgate” scandal, a systematic looting of public money. ACB arrested him last month on ‘cashgate’-related charges. […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court has found Malawi Congress Party (MCP) deputy director of youth Wyson Zinyemba Soko guilty of theft and money laundering for his involvement in the ongoing financial scandal dubbed “Cashgate” that saw millions of dollars looted from the impoverished country’s government. Soko becomes the third person to be convicted in many Cashgate cases […]
“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” ~ Thomas Paine It looks like the reality of the so-called Zero-Aid Budget is slowly sinking in; it is now at the intersection where wishes and reality collide. For the first time President Peter Mutharika has publicly appealed to […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has welcomed the conviction and sentencing of a former junior civil servant to nine years in jail with hard labour for his part in the “cashgate” corruption scandal and urged law enforcing agencies to cast the net wider to catch more culprits in the affair. Accounts assistant […]
“It’s the economy, Stupid!” – James Carville, Campaign Strategist for Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential bid One cannot help the nagging feeling of “déjà vu” given our fast deteriorating economic and fiscal scenario following the withdrawal of direct budgetary assistance under Joyce Banda’s PP administration which has spilled over to the new government. There is an […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court has jailed former government accounts assistant Victor Sithole to nine years impronment for the so-called “Cashgate” affair – the worst financial scandal in the country’s history. The court found Sithole, 27 guilty on the three counts involving money found in his possession amounting to K112 million, $31 850 and 122 000 […]
Malawian professor of law, Danwood Chirwa, has faulted Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale over alleged undue interference with the work of the investigative and prosecutorial agencies in relation to cashgate cases. Kaphale has been facing criticism in some sections of the media and social media on allegations that he was interfering with Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in […]
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!” –Ernesto Che Guevara Is it only me who thinks the publication of the Baker Tilly report by the Malawi Government is ill-advised, premature, misguided and risky? I will explain why I hold that view a little later. But, of course, most of us wanted the famous – read ‘infamous’ – […]
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale has asked a chief suspect in Malawi’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, Oswald Lutepo through his lawyer Oswald Mtupila on a deal to record statement as a State witness to implicate former president Joyce Banda or risk having his wife and daughter arrested. According to Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) sources, […]
Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale has clarified that the payments government made to Rummage Pace topping the ‘cashgate’ external forensic audit report were dully cleared by his office and were included in the report on suspicion that they overcharged. In the Baker Tilly report appendix, Rummage Pace (owned by Anil Lawlani/Raju Ralwani) reportedly were paid K12, […]
Critics have question the credibility of the Baker Tilly forensic audit report containing names of companies and individuals who allegedly siphoned money from Malawi Government coffers which has revealed that a total of K24.2 billion was plundered within a period of six months from April to September 2014. Many Malawians took it on social media […]
Former Malawi budget director Paul Mphwiyo who was shot outside his home at the time he was a whistle blower to the corruption “cashgate” scandal, a systematic looting of public money, has not been fingered in an external forensic audit the Malawi government released on Thursday. Gun-shot survivor Mphwiyo and his wife Thandizo were last […]
Financial crimes expert Lucas Kondowe who was recently appointed by President Peter Mutharika as Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said the graft-busting body will dip for objective material evidence to be used for prosecution in the cashgate trials, saying the external forensic audit will be complimentary. Kondowe said on Friday that the bureau will dig […]