Malawi’s Central Internal Audit (CIA) in the Ministry if Finance has revealed that K166 million has been plundered in the Ministrt of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development which has seen 68 officers being fired in connected to the Cashgate-style fraud. According to CIA audit, the money was plundered between 2012 and 2014 through dubious payments […]
Former president Joyce Banda has dismissed an announcement by Malawi Police that they have an arrest warrant for her over a corruption scandal, known as cash-gate, during her time in office, saying it is a regime “smear tactics.” In issuing the arrest warrant for Banda, Malawi’s police said they have “unearthed credible evidence” in connection […]
Alliance for Democracy (Aford) president Enock Chihana has told the state to arrest all cabinet ministers who served in the Joyce Banda administration. Chihana said he was angered with the state for issuing a warrant of arrest for the former president. ‘Government is a collective responsibility so the state should not arrest Dr Banda alone,” he […]
Spokesman for former president Joyce Banda has said they have failed to obtain the warrant of arrest which Police disclosed it has been issued, saying there is no information of which court issued it, but Police have maintained they have the authority to arrest Banda as they have secured a warrant of arrest from the court […]
Former Malawian president, Joyce Banda, says she is ready to return to the country to clear her name in a corruption scandal known as “Cashgate” that occurred during her tenure. Malawian police on Monday secured a court order for the arrest of Banda on allegations that new evidence in the scandal suggested that she was […]
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) say it is ready to process the extradition of embattled former president Joyce Banda from the US to answer cashgate related offences. Spokesperson for the ministry of Justice Apoche Itimu said the DPP office would process the extradition papers if approached by police. “We are aware that […]
Chief Secretary to the Government Lloyd Muhara has written former president Joyce Banda, who is facing arrest in relation to multimillion-pound “Cashgate” corruption scandal, against disclosing any information she was privileged to access while serving as President of Malawi between April 2012 and May 2014. In a letter dated June 21 2007 which has been […]
Former president Joyce Banda would surrender to police once a warrant of arrest is served on her, her spokesperson has said following disclosure by Malawi police of an arrest warrant over alleged abuse of office and money laundering offences over a two-year period when she was in office. Andekuche Chamthuya, Banda’s spokesperson, said his office is […]
The Peoples Party (PP) and supporters of former president Joyce Banda, who has been issued with a warrant of arrest following her alleged involvement in the plunder of public funds which was dubbed “cashgate”, are accusing the Malawi government of abusing the Police with political motives, saying the warrant is “politically-motivated.” National Spokesperson for Malawi […]
Malawi Police Service has issued an arrest warrant for former president Joyce Banda over allegations surrounding the huge corruption scandal known as Cashgate. Banda, who was president from 2012 to 2014, left the country in September 2014 after coming third in elections a few months earlier, and she has given a myriad of reasons as to […]
Malawi government has said arguments by People’s Party (PP) that its and former presidnet, Joyce Banda is failing to return home because government has not allocated her a home befitting a former head of State are flimsy and insincere. Banda, who was president from 2012 to 2014, left the country in September 2014 after coming third […]
Prosecution witness and former economic affairs director in the Ministry of Finance, Francis Juwawo on Thursday failed to appear before High Court in Lilongwe with a copy of an email he was asked to tender in court prompting adjournment and the courtwill this Friday decide on whether to extend trial days for the alleged looting […]
Defence in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others on Tuesday pinned down fourth State witness Francis Juwawo, former Economic Affairs director in the ministry of finance to explain his knowledge in the involvement of the accused persons in the case. Juwawo, who was cross examined by defence […]
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 17 others on Monday appeared in court in Lilongwe with a senior government official telling the court that the suspects’ action in Cashgate—the plunder of resources at Capital Hill through dubious payments exposed in September 2013— led to the loss of aid. Francis Zhuwao, Director of […]
Former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has accused the Director of Public Prosecutions Mary Kachale of being “an agent of injustice’, calling for investigations on the conduct of the top prosecutor by the Malawi Law Society. Mphwiyo, who has told the High Court that State prosecutors pressured him to sign affidavits implicating convicts of attempted murder […]
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 dubbed ‘cashgate’, has told the High Court that state prosecutors pressured him to sign affidavits implicating convicts of attempted murder of his life including former justice minister Ralph Kasambara. When […]
The High Court in Lilongwwith this Friday hear an application by the State to revoke the bail of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, one of the accused persons in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case. The State through one of its private hired prosecutor, Enoch Chibwana had applied to the court to consider revoking the bail […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ruled that Cornelius Kaphamtengo and 11 other civil servant ss have a case to answer in the first ever cashgate case of 2010 involving K201 million and that trial should start on August 1, 2011 . The judge found Kaphamtengo and 11 others, including his wife, with a case to […]