Owen Khamula –Nyasa Times Malawi Police say the former deputy ambassador to Addis Ababa embassy in Ethiopia, Doreen Kapanga remains in police custody in Lilongwe and she is yet to be charged. Deputy national spokesperson for the police Tomeck Nyaude said on Wednesday the police will follow the 48 hour law to bring a suspect […]
Maurice Nkawihe – Nyasa Times Malawi Police in Lilongwe have arrested the suspended Deputy Ambassador to Ethiopia, Doreen Kapanga, in connection with K293 million theft at the Embassy. Before her appointment to Ethiopia, Kapanga was a Deputy Inspector General of Police. “Yes it is true Mrs Doreen Kapanga has been arrested in connection to Ethiopia […]
Malawi Police in Mzuzu Monday arrested a final year Mzuzu University (Mzuni) student for allegedly defrauding the institution of K6.3 million after he created 12 ghost students and successfully applied for their upkeep allowances. Confirming the arrest Wednesday, Mzuzu Police publicist Martin Bwanali identified the fourth year student as Dumisani Kagunga Kaunga (27) studying Bachelor […]
Malawi Council of Churches (MCC), a coalition of 25 church groups, has found itself in unholy spotlight with reports of K6 million ($11 009.17) looting resulting to the dismissal of its general secretary the Reverend Dr. Osborne Joda Mbewe and project manager Godfrey Mkandawire following a number of the forensic audit queries. Bishop Gilford Matonga, […]
Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, Justice Maxon Mbendera, has refused to resign over allegations of “management fraud” in flouting of procurement and recruitment procedures at the institution between July 2012 and December 2014. Nyasa Times reported that a special investigative audit conducted following allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud indicates that MEC had poor financial […]
A final investigative audit report that covers July 2012 to December 2014 now obtained by Nyasa Times issued on 4th August 2015 to the recipient of Dr Ronald Mangani, Secretary to the Treasury, has exposed fraud and expenses scandal at the Malawi Electoral Commission. According to the report, MEC were heard and responded to the […]
FDH Financial Holdings Limited Chief Executive Officer, Thom Mpinganjira has ordered a forensic audit to be conducted on the newly acquisition Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) after it registered a K3.1 billion (before tax) loss in 2014. Contrary to reports before FDH acquired majority shareholding of the bank that it posted a profit of K811 million […]
Malawi’s giant brewery, Carlsberg Brewery Malawi Limited, has confirmed that a probe is underway into a huge ‘cashgate’ malfeasance that could amount o more than K5.2 billion as first reported by Nyasa Times. The fraud has rattled the brewery’s management. Carlsberg Malawi communications officer Towera Munthali confirmed that indeed there were “irregularities” in the financial […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika is “horrified” with continued plunder of public resources in government and wants ministries and government departments be audited with immediate effect, Presidential press secretary Gerald Viola has said. Viola said Mutharika is not amused with reports of ghost workers in the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development as well as […]
The Malawi Police Service has identified a couple, Yotam Mhango and his girlfriend Glory Mkwezalamba, saying they are hunting for them for allegedly defrauding senior officials in government and private sector by impersonating President Peter Muntharika’s aides and faking an audience with the president for a fee. According to National Police spokesperson Rhoda Manjolo , […]
Millions of money that was meant for the Malawi government coffers is going down the drain perpetrated by individual bosses at the Water and Irrigation Department who are hiring out high quality construction equipment at exorbitant prices to individual and some construction companies and the proceeds of the same goes to into personal pockets, Nyasa […]
Malawi Police said they have arrested six people for an attempt to swindle traditional leaders in Rumphi district. The suspects were arrested on Thursday after senior group village head Brian Mkoweka,65, of Mhango village, sub T/A Chisovya in Rumphi reported to Police that they had been to Rumphi and asked the chief to pay K45 000 after […]
The past week, Malawians were hit with news that police have arrested an individual for hacking into State House computers, disrupting the security system and stealing undisclosed sums of money using the president’s name. We were told, by no lesser personage than the whole Deputy Inspector General of Police, Rodney Jose, that the hacker, whose […]
State House press office has clarified that a man police is holding did not hack the computer network system at Kamuzu Palace but impersonated President Peter Mutharika by defrauding unsuspecting “well wishers.” According to acting presidential spokesman Timpuza Mwansambo Mwale, the suspect “has so far been charged with impersonation” by the Malawi Police Services. Police […]
Police in Lilongwe have arrested Shamir Osman aged 41 from Mitawa village, Traditional Authority (TA) Likoswe in Chiradzulu district for stealing money amounting to MK2, 380,000 from David Cao a Chinese businessman based in Area 9 in Lilongwe. Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) Sub Inspector Kingsley Dandaula said on the evening of August 9, […]
Most companies in Malawi are losing about 5 percent of their earnings through fraud and corruption, Director of Business Development Facility, Gabriel Kamanga said. Kamanga also asserted that the country is far away from required standard levels of detecting and dealing with fraud, which he observed, hinders the growth of the business sector and other […]
A cashier at grain markertor Admarc, Chrispin Mangwiro, 28, has been arrested for allegedly misappropriating K11, 143, 697 and forged financial documents between June, 2012 and July, 2013 at Liwonde depot of Admarc. Police Public Relations Officer, Constable Andrew Mayawo confirmed the arrest of Mangwiro after he handed himself over to police at Liwonde in the district Tuesday this week. […]
The maxim “he who comes into equity must come with clean hands” may aptly be applied on the Malawi Judiciary whose judges are reportedly on ‘strike’ on account of unpaid allowances. A letter authored by ‘Judiciary concerned employees’ contains damning revelations of fraudulent transactions by senior Judiciary staff members, including the High Court Judge and […]