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 […]
Businessperson and chief cashgate suspect Osward Lutepo was on Thurdday hospitalised at Mzuzu MASM Hospital after he collapsed and is currently receiving treatment with hospital sources saying he may be found to be incompetent “at this moment” to stand trial. Lutepo is regarded as chief suspect in cashgate cases and charged in a K5.7 billion […]
Malawi’s Information Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa has maintained that government handed over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) footage of meetings between former president Joyce Banda and Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo that implied the two were discussing something sinister bordering on corruption or fraud. The minister has been facing demand to tell Malawians who he gave the […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mary Kachale, has explained that at law, a criminal offence confession by a person is only evidence against him and no other person can be convicted on the basis of a confession made by another. In a statement, Kachale said the mentioned person might only be liable if they […]
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it still has not received 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 week that […]
Constitutional law expert Justine Dzonzi of Justice Link has noted that government in politically influencing the ongoing corruption cashgate scandal investigations and prosecution, saying the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) should tread carefully with the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footages of private meetings between former leader Joyce Banda and suspect Oswald Lutepo. Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa […]
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has denied knowing anything about the purported Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage which Minister of Information, Kondwani Nankhumwa said government has submitted to the graft-busting body showing former president Joyce Banda meetings with cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo. ACB deputy director Reyneck Matemba said on Thursday the bureau is not aware of the […]
Claims by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government that it has in possession of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) footage showing former president Joyce Banda meeting chief cashgate suspect, Oswald Lutepo, are only a creation to implicate the former Head of State in the infamous financial scandal, it has been learnt. Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa told […]
Minister of Information and government spokesman Kondwani Nankhumwa has told a news conference in the capital Lilongwe that government had assembled 33 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Footage showing a series of meetings Former President Joyce Banda and cashgate suspect Osward Lutepo held at State Residences in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and Mangochi. He said government had […]
Businessman and chiefcashgate suspect OswaldLutepo has his legs paralysed and in a wheelchair. Lutepo had been at Kamuzu Central Hospital where he has been receiving treatment after his arrest on fresh charges of tax evasion last week. Sources said he had a problem with his nervous system and has a paralysis of his legs. “He […]
Businessman and cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo’s has been granted bail on tax evasion charges after he was taken ill at Kamuzu Central Hospital but his cashgate tainted companies appear also in the K92 billion DPP-era cashgate “audit querry.” His lawyer Oswald Mtupila said his client remains unwell as he is “still complaining of some chest […]
Businessman and cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo’s conscience is apparently bearing down on him. He has been placed on suicide watch at Kamuzu Central Hospital where he’s receiving treatment after his arrest on fresh charges of tax evasion. Police guarding Lutepo said he was depressed and was on suicide watch after he surrended himself to the […]
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mary Kachale appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament in Lilongwe on Monday to update Parliament on progress of the pilfering of government money – cashgate -in what officials told legislatures there is no official recorded statement from suspect Oswald Lutepo implicating former president Joyce Banda. Lutepo gave […]
Chief Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo was nabbed by Police on Monday for tax evasion charges and became seriously ill after being arrested. He was rushed to Kamuzu Central Hospital in the evening for suspected high blood pressure. Nyasa Times reported Friday that public tax collector, Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) obtained an arrest warrant for Lutepo […]
Chief cashgate suspect and businessman, Oswald Lutepo, does not cease to amaze. On Friday, November 21, he spoke to Zodiak Broadcasting Station from his alleged ‘hiding’ place. As expected, Mr. Lutepo subjected Malawians to his now familiar narrative about cashgate and the people that he thinks must be involved. This time round, his victim is […]
Malawi government on Monday issued a media statement hitting back at former ruling Peoples Party (PP) and its leadership for alleging that President Peter Mutharika induced cashgate main suspect, Oswald Lutepo to implicate former president Joyce Banda in the scandal but later withdrew the statement without giving reasons and resubmitted it. Lutepo in a Zodiak […]
Arrested former budget director Paul Mphwiyo is ill and is being watched by police at the hospital where he is being treated for heart problems. Mphwiyo was arrested Friday by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), in a joint operation with the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA), together with businessperson Shiraz Ferreira and Nelson Johannes Kauwa of Thuso […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has rejected claims by Peoples Party (PP) that chief Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo is acting on instructions from President Peter Mutharika after a meeting to drag former president Joyce Banda into the plunder of the public purse. Speaking in an interview on Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) on Sunday, PP […]