Chikwawa District stakeholders meeting sitting at the council’s chamber hall on Tuesday agreed to suspend the district council’s Procurement Officer on suspicion of corruption and underperformance. The council’s chairperson, councilor Dyson Manjolo said at the end of the meeting that the suspension is with immediate effect and the officer, Thomson Wansambo, will be called back […]
Malawi police has commenced a fraud case against Lilongwe resident Nelson Mbeketeya and his three sons after renowned Mbeya Private Investigators discovered that the four defrauded Prime Insurance Company K1.7 million through bogus insurance cover claims. The development comes barely less than two months after Mbeya Private Investigators busted another syndicate that could have defrauded Prime Insurance Company millions of […]
Chiefs in Nkhotakota have called on the district council and other leaders not to dictate for them where to go and buy materials to be used in the newly established Community Managed Social Economic Projects Fund-CMSEPF. Traditional Authority Mphonde made the call during a Full Council meeting held in the district urging them not to […]
Sudi Adaki Sulaimana, who has twice been accused of an alleged coup plot, has been arrested by Fiscal police on allegations that he swindled K317 million from Wonawaka Chavula, daughter to Malawi’s former ambassador to Tanzania, late Flossie Gomile Chidyaonga. Sulaimana is reported to have persuaded Chavula that he was a “money multiplier” together with traditional […]
Atleast K100 million has gone missing at Nsanje district council while K32 million has vanished in Karonga just days after an expert called on the suspension of the funds following their continued abuse. Nsanje District Commissioner Rena Chavula said the missing money was for projects under the constituency development fund and the district development fund. […]
Senior officials at Balaka district council are scratching their heads in disbelief after K8.6 million has disappeared from council coffers. Sources at the council say the money might seem insignificant but raises questions as to its capacity to handle huge sums of district projects. A source said the missing of the money has led to […]
Private practice lawyer David Kanyenda was Wednesday afternoon arrested by Fiscal Police in Blantyre for fraud as he was about to leave the country through Chileka International Airport. This is the second time Kanyenda has been arrested by Fiscal Police for failing to account for money for his clients in a space of two months. […]
About K72 million of public money has vanished in thin air at Salima District Council, leaving officials scratching their heads. Charles Mwayembe, the district commissioner has confirmed of the missing money but said the police are yet to effect arrests. “We are now doing book reconciliations to get to the bottom of the matter,” said […]
Prison authorities in the Northern Region have complained that some fraudsters are soliciting money from people whose relatives are in prison on pretext that they would facilitate their early release from jail. Northern Region Prisons Publicist, Austin Mwansangwale in an interview on Wednesday said the conmen are either claiming to be lawyers, court or prison […]
Two businessmen are set to appear before the High Court in Blantyre to take plea in the infamous bank-gate, allegations that they swindled commercial banks of a whopping K20 billion through dubious bank loans. Pilirani Masanjala, spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice said the chairman of Cotton Ginnery Mohammed Ibrahim and his co-accused Abdul Yasmin Reiman will appear […]
The Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced a 33-year-old man to two years imprisonment with hard labour for Forgery and another two years for Theft by Servant respectively. The accused, Alinafe Jacob Mwanza of Chibvunguma village traditional authority (TA) Chulu in Kasungu who was project manager for Performance Based Financing Malawi project […]
First accused person in the Blantyre Water Board (BWB) fraud case, Oscar Kapito on Monday testified on his own behalf when the trial entered defence. Kapito and second accused Brian Makote, a former BWB corporate client officer, are answering charges of money laundering and theft to which they have all pleaded not guilty. They are […]
Paramount Chief Chikulamayembe of Rumphi District says Malawians need to have a sense of humanity when undertaking their duties by desisting from embezzling public funds and indulging in corruption. Chikulamayembe made the sentiments Tuesday when ActionAid Malawi disbursed K10.5 million to 30 Community Based Child Care Centres (CBCCCs) in the district. He said corruption or […]
Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Charles Msosa, has warned the public against fraudsters who target unsuspecting prospective developers by impersonating the ministry’s officers. Msosa issued the warning a statement seen by Nyasa Times after presidential adviser and former Cabinet minister Vuwa Kaunda lost about K1.4 million in a fake […]
President Peter Mutharika’s advisor on youth affairs, Symon Vuwa Kaunda, has been swindled K1.4 million by a suspected fraudster who used President’s name to persuade Kaunda to release the cash. Kaunda, who is senior member of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), a former Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) for Nkhata Bay Centre […]
The Blantyre Senior resident magistrate Viva Nyimba has refused bail to a third suspect, Paul Mang’ani, in the Blantyre Water Board (BWB) fraud case. Mang’ani , a third accused said to have been on the run since November last year, appeared in court for the first time on Monday following his arrest last Saturday. “The […]
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will from Saturday start investing a a K567 million interest payout controversy involving food supplier Pioneer Investments and Malawi Police Service (MPS), suspecting fraud with an arrest impending on the suppliers. Nyasa Times first reported recently that the Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa was “bulldozed” to authorise a payment to a company […]
The high profile civil case involving Illovo Sugar Malawi (ISM) resumed this week when one of the partners at KPGM, an international accountancy and audit firm, were grilled on audit report the company produced for the sugar manufacturer. On Tuesday, lawyer Davies Njobvu representing minority shareholder Prudential Holdings Ltd (PHL) – which dragged Illovo to […]