Malawi President Peter Mutharika has promised the opposition leaders to recover the money embezzled by the looting of public purse in what has been known as the “cash-gate” corruption scandal. Western donors, who provide about 40 per cent of the country’s budget, stopped payments after the scandal erupted in September 2013. Mutharika said government will […]
The main victim and casualty of Malawi’s ‘cashgate’ scandal the country’s former Budget Director PaulMphwiyo is under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to establish whether he was involved and benefitted from the plunder of billions of the public funds. Mphwiyo survived a shooting incident right at his house which reportedly aimed as silencing the […]
One of the vocal civil society groupings, the Forum for National Development (FND) says the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led-government must not negate its responsibility towards the fight against corruption, reminding government to do as promised during campaign trail to May 20th Tripartite Elections. In a statement made available to Nyasa Times, FND says it has learnt […]
Convicted former tourism official Treza Namathanga Senzani sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour for the “Cashgate” – the worst financial scandal in Malawi’s history that led to the suspension of foreign aid, will launch an appeal against her sentence. Senzani, 50, pleaded guilty to stealing K63 million ( about $150,000 or £93,000 ) […]
Civil society activists and Malawians on social media on Tuesday called for sentencing guidelines on the cases in the infamous cashgate scandal, which led to the suspension of foreign aid to the country following three year and nine month jail term slapped to former senior official. High Court in Lilongwe slapped a Treza Namathanga Senzani, a former […]
Justice has been administered and through it the Malawian people have had their dish of revenge served cold with the sentencing of Treza Senzani Namathanfa, former Ministry of Tourism principal secretary, to three years imprisonment for stealing from poor taxpayers a whopping K63 million. The trial of Senzani for theft and money laundering brought with […]
Top tourism ministry official Treza Namathanga Senzani who is the first convict in the so-called “Cashgate” scandal that led to the suspension of foreign aid has been has been jailed to three years for offences of money laundering. ‘Cashgate’ denotes the systematic skimming of millions of dollars of money from the government payment system. Trial […]
President Peter Mutharika has rejected suggestions that his government is not revealing names faulted in the report by British audit firm, Baker Tilly, on Cashgate because some of his ministers or members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are implicated. Mutharika told the local media in Malawi’s commercial, Blantyre, that the former ruling People’s Party […]
Malawi former President Joyce Banda through her lawyer on Monday made an application to High Court registry in Zomba to join Oswald Lutepo’s money laundering case as an interested party which the court has accepted. Banda made application after obtaining an injunction preventing the release of her call logs to main suspect in the cashgate […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has taken its brinkmanship game to another level by resorting to cook up evidence to link former president Joyce Banda to the infamous theft of public money popularly known as the ‘Cashgate scandal’. During his inauguration as President earlier this year, Prof Peter Mutharika declared that dealing with Cashgate […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Malawi National Assembly will again summon three of the major players in the country’s Public Finance Management (PFM) system to answer further on issues related to the plunder of billions of kwachas from government coffers. The probe into the financial plunder known as ‘cashgate’ already saw the Reserve […]
Justice Ivy Kamanga on Monday did not pass the sentencing of top tourism ministry official Treza Namathanga Senzani who is the first convict in the so-called “Cashgate” scandal that led to the suspension of foreign aid has been shifted to Monday, October 6 as she adjourned it to Tuesday. The judge on Monday kept changing […]
The billions of kwacha in public funds stolen in a scandal dubbed as cashgate has been revised from K13 billion to K20.3 billion, according to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). British audit firm, Baker Tilly, which was hired by the British Government to carry out a forensic audit first discovered that K13 billion was stolen within […]
Malawi’s Justice Minister Samuel Tembenu on Friday October 3 told parliament that more arrests are coming up and will involve high profile personalities suspected to have played a role in the plundering of public coffers at Capital Hill popularly referred to as cash-gate. Tembenu presenting a ministerial statement on the final forensic report by British […]
Malawi’s Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Samuel Tembenu, on Friday told parliament that there is “no really such thing as K92 billion cashgate”; backing Auditor General (AG) Stephenson Kamphasa that it was merely an “audit query”. The AG explained that the K92 billion Cashgate “ remains an audit query requiring further investigation in order to […]
The sentencing of top tourism ministry official Treza Namathanga Senzani who is the first convict in the so-called “Cashgate” scandal that led to the suspension of foreign aid has been shifted to Monday, October 6. Senzani pleaded guilty to stealing around $150,000 (63 million kwacha) from state coffers, part of a broader swindle worth at […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been accused by Malawi Parliament’s Budget and Finance Committee of fuelling the plundering and looting of public resources christened as ‘Cashgate’. According to the Committee, the effects of cashgate would have been minimized had it been that DPP paid attention to an ‘interim report’ of Auditor General’s audit […]
The judiciary has enough judges in terms of numbers and judicial officers to ensure they dispense justice without delay for the cases implicating some civil servants and some politicians in the Cashgate scandal, Malawi’s Chief Justice Anastazia Msosa said Wednesday. 1 October. The Chief Justice said the government has deployed judges from Blantyre and Mzuzu to […]