President Lazarus Chakwera has removed the director of public prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale as the Malawi leader continues to consolidate power in government and state machinery five months after the presidential election. No reasons have been given for the firing of Kachale who has since been replaced by Dr. Steve Kayuni. Kachale, wife to Malawi […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale has said the white-collar crimes like the biggest financial scandal in Malawi’s history known as “cashgate” are somewhat difficult to prosecute, hence the delay in logical conclusion of the trial of K2.4 billion involving former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others. Kachale said in […]
Malawi government will issue an extradition request to South Africa for an alleged Cashgate-linked fugitive Limumba Karim, Director of Public Prosecution Mary Kachale said on Wednesday. Kachale said in an interview after High Court in Lilongwe reserved its ruling until next week Tuesday on whether former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others have a […]
Women in Malawi have been asked to pray hard against the Coronavirus (Covid-19) and take an active role in preventing the spread of the pandemic. Director of Public Prosecutions, Mary Kachale, made the remarks over the weekend as a guest speaker during the commemoration of Women’s World Day of Prayer organized for scores of women […]
Embattled acting Inspector General of police Duncan Mwapasa has come under intense fire from the director of public prosecutions for ignoring advice to drop fraud case of two rights activists. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in a letter to the acting police inspector general says since UNAIDS, the complainant, has withdrawn the complaint, […]
While calls for embattled Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah resignation continue to grow, the decision by Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to dismiss an application by widow to the late Buleya Lule, Charity, asking for private prosecution of seven police officers implicated in her husband’s murder in police custody, dominates the news agenda. […]
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mary Kachale, has urged investigators, prosecutors and magistrates in the country not to entertain withdrawal of cases on gender based violence but rather bring culprits to book. The DPP shot the warning on Friday in Mangochi when she officially opened a two-day training of investigators, prosecutors and magistrates from five […]
Director of Public Prosecutions, Mary Kachale, has warned prosecuting agencies against discharging gender-based violence cases, saying even complainants have no powers to withdraw such cases. Speaking in Lilongwe, Kachale said gender-based violence cases are criminal therefore they are between the state and the suspects. “Even the victims, who are the complainants, should not come to you and say that […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale has appealed against a Supreme Court judge’s decision to release on bail former justice minister Ralph Kasambara and asked the court to revoke the bail conditions. Kachale wants a panel of nine judges at the same Supreme Court of Appeal to hear the matter and that the bail for former Justice Minister’s who was serving […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale is challenging a Supreme Court judge’s decision to release on bail former justice minister Ralph Kasambara who has been given serving a 13-year jail term for conspiracy to murder a civil servant, in a crime believed to be linked to a multi-million dollar corruption ring. Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal judge Dunstan Mwaungulu, sitting as a […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale in her submission opposing the bail application filed by former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and his two co-convicts tackled the issue of call-logs, saying it was part of the totality evidence. Kasambara and his co-convicts—Pika Manondo and McDonald Kumwembe—applied for bail pending an appeal […]
The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Dunstain Mwaungulu has quashed the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale’s application that he recuses himself from hearing a bail application for convicted former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara and two others after the State accused presiding judge Dunstan Mwaungulu of “bias”. Kasambara and […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale told the High Court in Lilongwe on Tuesday that he was not pleased with the report of the on-going K2.4billion Capital Hill Cashgate trials that involves gunshot survivor, former budget director Paul Montfort Mphwiyo and 18 others which appeared on Nyasa Times indicating that fifth witness Kondwani Munthali […]
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 […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale has told Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal that Cashgate convict Maxwell Namata was one of the masterminders of the K2.4 billion looting in government in a case involving former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 other suspects. Namata, a former civil servant, was sentenced to consecutive […]
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale has asked the High Court in Lilongwe that businessman Limumba Karim who is on a the run in the K2.4 billion money laundering case and is suspected to be hiding in South Africa should be prosecuted in his absence . Lumumba escaped the country when he was expected […]
Supreme Court of Appeal Judge, Justice Dunstain Mwaungulu has refused to go down without a fight, challenging Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale’s demands to recuse himself from bail application case involving convicted former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Raphael Kasambara and two others. Kachale on Wednesday morning made […]