Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Malawi National Assembly Parliament wants to summon again several stakeholders in the ongoing probe into how government lost billions of taxpayers’ money in what has come to be called Cashgate. In an interview at the end of a three-week review of audit reports on Friday, the committee’s chairperson Alekeni Menyani […]
Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has ordered businessman Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in the systematic plunder of government money, dubbed ‘cashgate’, to appear before the court on Friday to explain a letter he wrote to Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale alleging that he was forced to lie under oath in his earlier statements. On […]
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth” –Buddha Let us continue with last week’s theme, the ‘Cashgate logjam’, where we interrogated the Catch 22 situation where he defenders have become the pursuers. Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale, whose name is all over ‘cashgate’ – not as a direct beneficiary, but as […]
Businessman Stafford Mpoola has pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges in relation to Malawi Cashgate scandal . Mpoola was charged with money laundering and being found in possession of property suspected to have been stolen in a case involving about K1.6 billion. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Mpoola in October 2013 after he was […]
Glens Waterways Limited (GWL) has described a news article that appeared in The Nation of August 8, 2014, headlined ‘Kasambara takes on Mphwiyo’ as “malicious and false”. The company also says there was “gross mispresentation” of facts concerning alleged payments made to GWL. In the said article, the paper reported accused person Ralph Kasambara (in […]
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort”–Confucius The temptation was fever high to ‘muckrake’ what was happening between Area 3 and Area 43 in Lilongwe during the past week. The Paul Mphwiyo-Ralph Kasambara duel is stuff for the movies. But they say we may not substantially comment on on-going […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Friday adjourned the case o f the attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo in which lawyer Ralph Kasambara, businessperson Pika Manondo, Dauka Manondo, Robert Kadzuwa and Macdonald Kumwembe are charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The suspects have pleaded not guilty to charges. […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Thursday afternoon ordered gun-shot survivor former budget director Paul Mphwiyo to help the state to trace a Toyota Fortuner registration ZA 7171 . The vehicle was the center of the cross-examination the whole day since it was the one Mphwiyo used the night he was shot, and was damaged in the […]
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo on Thursday politician-cum –lawyer Henry Phoya to the list of some ministers who were pressurising him to approve payments to some companies, among them Glens Waterways and Deco/Terrastone which was claiming K9 billion. During his first day of testifying as a witness in his shooting case at the High […]
The defence lawyers on Wednesday night tried to poke holes in the highly emotional testimony of gun-shot survivor former Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo in his shooting case. The High Court in Lilongwe Wednesday close to midnight moved to the residence of Mphwiyo in Area 43 the scene of his shooting. The […]
Two top Peoples Party (PP) strongmen gave gunshot survivor and former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo 10 days to authorise payments or risk his life. The two big shots are party’s Vice-President for the South Brown Mpinganjira and former party spokesperson Hophmally Makande. Mphwiyo was testifying in court on Wednesday in a case in which car […]
Gun-shot survivor former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has implicated former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara and businessman Pika Manondo as among those responsible for attempting to murder him. Testifying as prosecution witness in the trial a High Court in Lilongwe , Mphwiyo who was shot as he drove into his Area 43 home in Lilongwe, said […]
The Auditor General (AG) Stepheson Kamphasa said on Saturday that his office’s interim report on findings of what is being christened as the “MK92 billion Cashgate” is not conclusive as it remains an audit query as they will ascertain in the final report if public funds were indeed lost. As part of the K92 billion […]
Businessman Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in ‘cashgate’, the systematic plunder of government money, has he feels fooled by prosecution that he was going to State witness “not knowing I was just being used to lie against myself as well,” and is calling for government to reboot Cashgate investigation and make fresh interrogations before trial. Lutepo said he wants to […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday moved his court to Area 43 in Lilongwe the residence of former Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo where it started hearing testimony from a security guard who said he heard three gun shots but did not see any of the suspects. Former Justice Minister Ralph […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday ordered the prosecution in the former budget director Paul Mphwiyo attempted murder case to start parading witnesses gainst former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara and others. Prosecution has asked for an an adjournment but Justice Mtambo refused to grant them, saying the trial should proceed from this afternoon. Kasambara, […]
State prosecutor in the ongoing Malawi’s Cashgate cases have disclosed that they have evidence which shows that businessperson Osward Lutepo and the country’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara were working together to steal and launder money from government coffers. The money connected to the two and other suspects amount to almost […]
High Court Judge Chifundo Kachale on Tuesday ruled against former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara, one of those answering charges of money laundering involving more than K5 billion and other charges surrounding Malawi’s cashgate scandal, who demanded that special state prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu should not continue handling the case. Kasambara, his law firm Ralph and Arnolds, […]