Head of Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) Lucas Kondowe has disclosed that the graft-busting body had instituted investigations into the former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s accumulation of at least K61 billion ($85.3 million at current rate), alleged to be stashed in offshore accounts but yielded no results. Late Mutharika’s wealth was established by YMW Property […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe has said he has serious “reservations” with certain aspects of the K1.7 billion corruption case involving former president Bakili Muluzi. Muluzi, 73 is being tried along with his former secretary Lyness Whiskey as government claimed 1.7 billion Malawian kwacha ($12 million) in the former president’s account during his 1994-2004 […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Lucas Kondowe has said the graft-busting body will continue the trial involving former president Bakili Muluzi to its logical conclusion. Kondowe said no decision has been made to drop the corruption charges despite that the lead prosecutor Reyneck Matemba recused himself from the case and it has been draining money […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director of corporate affairs Issa Njauju may have been killed in a case of mistaken identity. Njaunju was found dead on July 4 2015 with his body half-buried near Lilongwe River and his Toyota Hilux double-cabin vehicle burnt to ashes behind the presidential villas in Lilongwe. Sources at the bureau say ACB […]
Malawi will continue finding it difficult to fight corruption if the battle is left to the graft-busting body alone, the Anti- Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General Lucas Kondowe has told lawmaker. Kondowe who led his ACB team which appeared before the cluster of Public Appointments, Legal Affairs and Statutory Authorities committees of parliament, said graft-busting […]
Investigators at the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and police officers are said to be intimidated and threatened by businessperson, Karamat Ullah Chaudhry and Azhar Chaudrey, to drop any other investigations against them related to tax, money laundering and corruption, saying they are untouchables and key fanciers to ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and “well-wishers” of President […]
Fiscal police in Blantyre on Thursday summoned for questioning a Pakistan businessperson Karamat Choudhry of Shayana Supermarket in connection to the mysterious man that deposited K2 million into the bank account of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director general Lucas Kondowe. Choudhry has been names a prime suspect after analysis of the mobile call log and second […]
Law enforcement agencies still suspect businessman Karamat Choudhry of Shayana Supermarket was behind the cash deposit of K2 million in ACB boss Lucas Kondowe’s First Merchant Bank (FMB) account but he remains at large. Police and ACB said on Thursday they are yet to arrest Choudhry. The deposit slip indicated the money came from a […]
Malawi Police and Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) have launched a major manhunt and named their prime suspect in the investigations of a cash deposit of K2 million in ACB boss Lucas Kondowe’s First Merchant Bank (FMB) account. The prime suspect is businessman Karamat Choudhry of Shayana Supermarket. Investigators said he has been suspected after analysing […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it has obtained a CCTV footage showing a man who made a cash deposit of K2 million deposited in the bureau’s boss Lucas Kondowe’s First Merchant Bank (FMB) account. The deposit slip indicated the money came from a Mr A. Majid. But a CCTV footage which Nyasa Times has […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Lucas Kondowe has alerted police to investigate a cash deposit of K2 million deposited in his First Merchant Bank (FMB) account by a Mr A. Majid. Kondowe, reported to Inspector General of Police Lexten Kachama, after he realised that in his bank account there was a deposit of K2 million from Majid. […]
The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) has put under microscope about six government institutions perceived vulnerable to fraud and corruption. ACB which, currently is on pilot-phase, enlisted the institutions under its project aimed at detecting fraud and corrupt practices in the State agencies. The screened institutions are Central Medical Stores, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom), Ministry […]
The Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) has queried government to formally submit the CCTV footage of former president Joyce Banda’s 23 meetings with chief Cashgate suspect, Oswald Lutepo, and other senior People’s Party (PP) members at four different state residences in the country as government claimed. Government though its spokesman Kondwani Nankhumwa said last year that they […]
Financial crimes expert Lucas Kondowe who was recently appointed by President Peter Mutharika as Director General of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said the graft-busting body will dip for objective material evidence to be used for prosecution in the cashgate trials, saying the external forensic audit will be complimentary. Kondowe said on Friday that the bureau will dig […]
President Peter Mutharika is convinced that Lucas Kondowe, a man he has appointed director of the Anti Corruption Bureau-ACB has the acumen and technical expertise to bring immediate results on cash gate related matters. The President appointed accountant Kondowe as Director General of ACB on Wednesday, 8th October, 2014, making him the first ACB boss […]
Malawi opposition has criticised the appointment of financial expert, LucasKondowe, as the new anti corruption czar to lead the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). President Peter Mutharika on Wednesday appointed Kondowe, First Merchant Bank (FMB) General Manager for Finance, Planning and Strategy to head the graft-busting body replacing Justice Renzine Mzikamanda. Kondowe’s appointment is subject to the […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has appointed First Merchant Bank (FMB) General Manager for Finance, Planning and Strategy, Lucas Kondowe, as the new anti corruption czar to lead the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Chief Secretary to Government, George Mkondiwa, announced the appointment in a statement, saying Mutharika made the appointment on Wednesday October 8. Mkondiwa said Kondowe […]