There is no case for alarm. This is an assurance coming from Deputy Registrar of the High Court Justus Kishindo who has said the Judiciary has all information and records records on the shooting of Malawi’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and money laundering (cashgate) intact despite a court clerk claiming she […]
Case records on the shooting of Malawi’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and money laundering (cashgate) has gone missing with a court clerk claiming she has been robbed of the recorders and other documents involving various cashgate cases. The court clerk claimed thieves have made away with two recorders that contain court […]
A revolver which was allegedly supposed to be used in the shooting of former budget director in the Ministry of Finance Paul Mphwiyo was Friday tendered to the High Court in the capital Lilongwe by police investigators. Mphwiyo was shot during the night of September 13, 2013 outside his house in Lilongwe. His shooting opened […]
Malawi Police in Mangochi have arrested Robert Kadzuwa – one of the suspects who was earlier arrested in connection with the attempted murger of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo – in connection with a spate of armed robberies in the lakeshore sdistrict. Kadzuwa,33 comes from Lowa Village, Traditional Authority Mabuka in Mulanje. Inspector Kondwani Ntchawaka […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday in the capital Lilongwe granted a subpoena for two state witnesses to appear in court and testify in the case of the shooting of Malawi’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. There five e accused persons including former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara who […]
The state’s latest witness in the case of former budget Director’s attempted murder case, Griffins Tembo has told the High Court in Lilongwe that according to immigration procedures there was no evidence backing the claim that McDonald Kumwembe was outside Malawi at the time Mphwiyo was shot. Kumwembe’s lawyer Wapona Kita had showed the court […]
The Lilongwe High Court on Wednesday granted bail to private practice lawyer Yambani Mulemba on charges bordering on facilitating money laundering in connection with former budget director Paul Mphwiyo. The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Mulemba of Knight and Knights law firm on Monday on charges bordering on facilitating money laundering. Justice Esme Chombo granted the bail in […]
The State through Director of Public Prosecution Mary Kachale on Wednesday applied to court to revoke bail for suspects in the shooting of former Director of Finance Paul Mphwiyo after accusing the defence of employing ‘mafia-like operations’ to intimidate State witnesses. Former minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ralph Kasambara is charged with attempted murder […]
Law enforcing agencies on Monday arrested Yambani Mulemba, a lawyer by profession, who is linked to the money laundering charge of the country’s former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo and his wife Thandi. Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officers said said they want to quiz Mulemba on allegations that he collected US70, 000 dollars from Mphwiyo’s […]
The former Ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo will not evade justice in theft and money laundering case, his lawyer has contended after the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has turned down his application to travel to South Africa for medical aid. Mphwiyo applied to the bureau to be allowed to travel to South Africa […]
State prosecutors have initiated the process of exploring the legal grounds to discharge the businessperson Osward Lutepo implicated to have had a hand in the plot to shoot budget director Paul Mphwiyo, following the key witness withdrawing his sworn affidavit in court. According to court documents sourced by Nyasa Times, an affidavit sworn in by […]
Crispin Ernest Banda, who was the surety for former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo, claimed in the High Court on Wednsday that Mphwiyo planned to jump bail. Banda asked High Court judge Esmie Chombo to be withdrawn as a surety for Mphwiyo’s bail in the theft and money laundering charges amounting to K2.1 […]
Kelson Gani who was arrested in connection to the shooting of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo is taking legal action against the former Director of Public Prosecution Bruno Kalemba for false imprisonment, Nyasa Times has learnt. At the time of arrest in 2013 Gani was serving as a Police Officer of the rank of Sergeant […]
International Criminal Police Organisation(Interpol) with Malawi Police Service officers have joined the hunt for stolen vehicles smuggled into the country with former 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 had his two cars checked. In their […]
The High Court in Lilongwe hearing the former budget director Paul Mphwiyo’s attempted murder case adjourned to the middle of March when it will resume hearing further evidence from the prosecution. I am aware of the remits of not commenting on matters which are court. This is a long standing rule but having recently followed […]
Private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker told the High Court in Lilongwe in the ongoing trial into the shooting of former ministry of finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo that she was persuaded by Kasambara’s wife not to talk about the former justice minister’s alleged involvement in the attempted murder. But the defence lawyers in […]
This is getting interesting! The shooting of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo has always been feared to have been a result of a corrupt deal turned sour and the ongoing trial is bringing some interesting information lending credence to that with the latest being lawyer Ralph Kasambara’s ex-domestic worker revealing her former boss and […]
Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) head surgeon Dr Carlos Valera said the assailant who shot former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo might have used a weaker gun in their attempted murder plot. Valera, who is the sixth state prosecution witness, told the court, presided over by Justice Michael Mtambo, when he was testifying in court on Wednesday. Two […]