The defence lawyers in the K2.4billion Cashgate trial involving former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others have questioned the independence of trial judge Esmie Chombo as they fear she is compromised by asking the defence team to furnish them with witness list it intends to bring before the court is yet […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has maintained bail conditions for former Minister of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo who is charged with theft and money laundering K2.4 billion Cashgate related charges but warned him against contacting State witnesses. The State applied to the court to consider revoking the bail of Mphwiyo, claiming that the suspect has […]
Malawi government has appointed Peterson Ponderani as new Budget Director after a major shake-up at Capital Hill in October this year that saw several officers being removed or relocated from their positions. Ponderani will replace Chauncy Simwaka who was redeployed to be Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Defence during the October shake-up as a […]
Sixth state witness in the on-going K2.4 billion Cashgate related case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others, Philip Thoko Majiga, has finished giving his testimony before the Lilongwe High Court and said he has no incriminating evidences against Mphwiyo . Majiga, Budget officer in the ministry of finance and economic planning, however […]
High Court Judge Esme Chombo during a sitting at Lilongwe City Council Civic Centre on Monday had to temporarily suspend hearing of the K2.4 billion cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others for about 40 minutes from 10am after third accused person Kazombo Mwale collapsed during the trial. Kazombo and Mphwiyo are among […]
Prosecution witness and former economic affairs director in the Ministry of Finance, Francis Juwawo on Thursday failed to appear before High Court in Lilongwe with a copy of an email he was asked to tender in court prompting adjournment and the courtwill this Friday decide on whether to extend trial days for the alleged looting […]
Defence in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others on Tuesday pinned down fourth State witness Francis Juwawo, former Economic Affairs director in the ministry of finance to explain his knowledge in the involvement of the accused persons in the case. Juwawo, who was cross examined by defence […]
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 17 others on Monday appeared in court in Lilongwe with a senior government official telling the court that the suspects’ action in Cashgate—the plunder of resources at Capital Hill through dubious payments exposed in September 2013— led to the loss of aid. Francis Zhuwao, Director of […]
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 […]
The High Court in Lilongwwith this Friday hear an application by the State to revoke the bail of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo, one of the accused persons in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case. The State through one of its private hired prosecutor, Enoch Chibwana had applied to the court to consider revoking the bail […]
Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development chief economist Daniel Jenya has finished testifying in the case that involves former government top officials like Paul Mphwiyo, former budget director, David Kandoje former accountant general , Auzius Kazombo , IT guru Steve Likhunya Phiri and 15 others in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case Jenya, who has been […]
Ministry of Finance, Economic Planning and Development chief economist Daniel Jenya who is prosecution witness in the K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and 18 others has told the court that he was an admirer of Mphwiyo but was dubbed by defence attorney as a “theorist economist.” Jenya said this during […]
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 […]
The missing records in Malawi courts had been a crisis for a long time. Cashgate suspect and former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has had to be asked by the High Court in Lilongwe to submit fresh application after his bid to seek clearance from travelling to South Africa could not be approved following […]
Cashgate suspect and former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has been stopped by High Court in Lilongwe from travelling to South Africa to undergo a medical attention on his jaw following his shooting on September 13 2013. Mphwiyo through his lawyers assured the court that the gun short survivor would return to Malawi as […]
Cashgate convict and State witness in the K2.4 billion scandal Leonard Prince Kalonga on Thursday told the High Court in Lilongwe, which is sitting at Civic Offices, that he benefitted K50 million in the looting scheme but details seen by Nyasa Times show he had pocketed more millions. Kalonga is testifying in the ongoing case […]
Cashgate convict Leonard Kalonga who is being used as a State witness in the K2.4 billion scam has blames the People’s Party (PP) regime for failing to shield Cashgaters like himself and only shown signs to protect former Accountant General David Kandonje and former budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Kandoje and Mphwiyo are among the 18 suspects […]