Former Malawi Police Inspector General responsible for criminal investigation, Nelson Bophani has been implicated in the ongoing Mphwiyo Shooting Case which involves former minister of Justice and constitutional affairs Ralph Kasambara as the master-minder of gunshot survivor Paul Montfort Mphwiyo’s statements that so Kasambara and others be named as possible suspects of his shooting. One […]
High court judge Michael Ntambo has summoned evangelist-cum-politician Brown Mpinganjira to testify in a case which Macdonald Kumwembe together with lawyer Ralph Kasambala and businessman Pika Manondo are answering attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder on Mphwiyo. This follows some witnesses mentioning Mpinganjira’s name in court. It all started when Mphwiyo in his tesmony […]
Third witness testifying in defence of first accused person Macdonald Kumwembe, Dauka Manondo who is elder brother to the second accused person Pika Manondo told the court on Tuesday that he knew former budget director Paul Mphwiyo as personal and family friend from 1990s. Nyasa Times reporter captures the cross examination with Director of Public […]
The first accused in the Paul Mphwiyo shooting case, MacDonald Kumwembe, has asked three top government officials including deputy director of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Reyneck Matemba to testfy as his witnesses. Kumwembe also wants as witnesses former Secretary to Treasury during the time Mphwiyo was Budget Director, Newby Kumwembe. He has also lined up former […]
Former minister of finance in the United Democratic Front (UDF) government, Friday Jumbe has contradicted former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on how government payments are authorized, saying a budget director has no mandate to make payments. .One of the accused person in the shooting of former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo, McDonald […]
Former Peoples Party (PP) Publicity Secretary Hophmary Makande has told the Lilongwe High court that the party never used public funds in any of its activities when it was in power. Makande was in court as a second witness for Macdonald Kumwembe who together with lawyer Ralph Kasambala and businessman Pika Manondo are answering attempted […]
Malawi’s former president Joyce Banda has reacted to allegations by convicted Ministry of Tourism and Culture principal secretary (PS) Ms Treza Namathanga Senzani who is currently serving a three-year sentence after being found guilty of involvement in Cashgate—the plunder of billions of kwacha of public funds –that the highest level of Banda’s administration was involved […]
A new suspect in the K2.4 billion money laundering case in which former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo is among the accused, IT expert Steve Likhunya-Phiri has been released on bail by High Court in Lilongwe. Phiri was arrested December 2 2015, is accused number seven among 19 suspects after Director of Public […]
Former budget director in the ministry of finance and gun-shot survivor Paul Montfort Mphwiyo and his 17 other suspects in the K2.4 billion cashgate case have failed to take plea on Thursday at Lilongwe High Court as prosecutors added another suspect in the case. Mphwiyo was expected to take plea to four charges that was […]
Sampling the 10th and 11th December 2015 court session. It was on Thursday around nine o’clock in the morning or just after, when court resumed and the three accused; MacDonald Kumwembe and Pika Manondo, and Raphael Kasambara SC were to enter their defence in the case they are accused of attempted murder and conspiracy to […]
One of the accused person in the shooting of former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo, Mcdonald Kumwembe has mentioned former minister of finance in the United Democratic Front (UDF) government, Friday Jumbe and former Peoples Party official Hophmally Makande as some of his witnesses to testify in court as he enters […]
Case of Shooting of former budget director in the ministry of Finance, Paul Mphwiyo has now entered defence where first accused Mcdonald Kumwembe ex Malawi Defence Force soldier, second accused businessman Pika Manondo and former justice minister Raphael Kasambara are now defending themselves on charge of attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The matter which […]
Lilongwe High Court judge Micheal Mtambo has dismissed an application from accused Macdonald Kumwembe, to recuse himself from the conspiracy to commit murder case of the shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo at the gate of his Area 43 residence in Lilongwe on September 13 2013. Kumwembe – a former Malawi […]
Former budget director Paul Mphwiyo Tuesday walked out to freedom after spending nine days in police custody, temporarily though as the State has hinted he faces several cases which can lead him back to prison. The High Court in Lilongwe granted bail to Mphwiyo in a K2 million bond on Monday but could not get […]
Paul Montfort Mphwiyo, the former budget director at the finance ministry, would obstruct justice if freed pending trial, prosecutors said at his bail hearing. Mphwiyo remains in police custody since his arrest on Saturday as High Court is yet to rule whether he is going to be given bail or not following the state plea […]
High Court in Lilongwe has formally charged former budget director in the ministry of finance Paul Mphwiyo and 17 others with charges related to the looting of government money worth MK2.446,817.49 from 1st April 2013 to 30th July 2013 known as cashgate scandal. Mphwiyo, who was arrested by fiscal police on Saturday, appeared in court Wednesday with […]
The list of those arrested in Cashgate crimes so far reads like a roll-call of high-profile people as former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and three other suspected Auzius Kazombo Mwale, Clemence Mmadzi and Roosevelt Ndovi charged with seven counts. The four are jointly being accused of defrauding about K2.4 billion in 2013 […]
Former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo has been arrested by fiscal police in Lilongwe in connection to his alleged involvement in the cashgate scandal. He is accused of siphoning over K3 billion of public funds from Capitol Hill in Lilongwe. Mphwiyo’s arrest comes three months after he was fingered out as the mastermind of the theft […]