The High Court in Blantyre has dismissed a K30 billion compensation claim which businessman Rashid Tayub and his agribusiness company Transglobe initiated against the government. Tayub and Transglobe Produce Export Limited dragged the Attorney General and the graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to court to demand compensation following the dismissal of the infamous […]
Former minister of agriculture Dr George Chaponda on Thursday became irritated and agitated after opposition legislators kept on calling him ‘maizegater’ and ‘Kaloswe’. This is despite the fact that the High Court last week upheld a lower court ruling in acquitting him in all counts of corruption in what became of maizegate and possession of […]
High Court has acquitted former Cabinet minister George Chaponda in the Maizegate case after the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) appealed his acquittal by the Zomba Magistrate Court. Judge Dr Redson Kapindu in his ruling on Tuesday upheld the judgement by Zomba chief resident magistrate Paul Chiotcha who acquitted Chaponda on May 18 2018, after quashing all evidence […]
Former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda, returned to court Thursday after the country’s anti-graft busting body Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) appealed against his acquittal of case in his corruption-related case regarding the Zambia maize purchase in 2016. Chaponda was charged with three offences of giving false information to ACB, influencing a public officer […]
The High Court in Blantyre has thrown out a K30 billion compensation claim by Tayub Rashid and Transglobe Produce Export Limited for loss of business and false imprisonment in the infamous maizegate scandal on technical grounds. Tayub and Transglobe had applied to the court to force the government pay them in excess of K30 billion t for loss […]
Tax-payer will be squeezed again to fork out about K30 billion if Transglobe Produce Export Limited succeeds in its compensation claim in court for loss of business and false imprisonment. Lawyer representing Transglobe, Mwayi Banda, confirmed the legal action, saying they have engaged Ritz Attorneys at Law to sue Attorney General and the Anti Corruption […]
Hearing of the case involving Chairperson, of Grain Traders Association , Grace Mijiga Mhango, who is accused of forgery in the procurement of maize from Zambia failed to resume at the Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate (SRM)Court on Thursday. The case is related with that of former agriculture minister George Chaponda whose acquittal by the Zomba Senior […]
Zomba chief resident magistrate (CRM) Paul Chiotcha who acquitted former Cabinet minister George Chaponda in his corruption-related case regarding the Zambia maize purchase in 2016, “errerd in law” to dismiss two of Chaponda’s three counts, Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said at it lodged an appeal bid at the High Court. Chaponda was acquitted on three charges of giving […]
Governance expert and human right activist Makhumbo Munthali has welcomed the decision by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to appeal the acquittal of former Cabinet minister George Chaponda following criticism from some civil society organisations (CSOs) that it presented a weaker case against the former minister. Zomba chief resident magistrate Paul Chiotcha acquitted Chaponda and businessperson […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) is going to appeal former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda’s acquittal by Zomba Magistrate Court which found him with no case to answer on corruption-related case regarding the maize procurement from Zambia. Chaponda is the powerful figure in the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and seen as […]
Malawi’s Former Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has been shielded from trial according to the civil society organisations who have called on the Zomba Magistrate Court ruling last Friday that he had no case to answer in corruption-related charges regarding the 2017 maize procurement deal from Zambia as “utter miscarriage of […]
Malawi’s Former Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has spoken out for the first time after being acquitted by the Zomba Magistrate Court in corruption-related charges regarding the 2017 maize procurement deal from Zambia, saying he has been vindicated that there was no case at all to answer. Chaponda was found with no […]
Following the Zomba Senior Magistrate Paul Chiotcha’s acquittal of former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and businessperson Rashid Tayub in the Zambian maize procurement case, lawyers for the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) were not confident that they could appeal while the defence said they are comfortable with the ruling. On Friday, the […]
Former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and businessperson Rashid Tayub have been acquitted after court ruled on Friday that they have no case to answer in the Zambian maize procurement case. Chaponda appeared relieved at Zomba Magistrate’s Court as Zomba chief resident magistrate Paul Chiotcha prounuced his determination. The court acquitted […]
Lawyers for former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and Transglobe’s Director Rashid Tayub in the corruption-related case on Monday described oral submissions by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as lacking substance and full of contradictions. ACB arrested Chaponda, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for Southern Region, last year alongside Tayub for suspected […]
Lawyers for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for the South George Chaponda and Transglobe’s Director Rashid Tayub on Friday submitted for a ‘no case to answer’ defense before the Zomba Senior Resident Magistrate in the Zambia maize procurement deal. Chaponda is answering three charges which include giving false information to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), […]
Defence lawyers in the Maizegate case involving Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice- president George Chaponda and businessperson Rashid Tayub again accused the State of employing delaying tactics to stall proceedings after prosecutors dodged the oral submissions before the Zomba Senior Magistrate court on Friday. This was the second time when the prosecution has asked the court for further […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it is still holding some millions it took from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice- president George Chaponda in the Maizegate case. Malawians, in different social media platforms, reacted angrily to the decision by graft bursting bodyto give back K29m to Chaponda. However ACB director Reyneck Matemba said the money had not been […]