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 […]
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’, on Wednesday returned to High Court in Lilongwe where he has been testifying in his attempted murder case. Mphwiyo was testifying in cross examination by lawyer and former […]
Lilongwe Magistrate Court has granted an order to Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on request from Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to temporarily freeze bank accounts of businessperson Pika Manondo, who is one of a suspect in the shooting of Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo. Manondo wanted to withdraw cash at First Merchant Bank […]
Former Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara has written the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mary Kachale urging the State to re examine the facts so far alleged and decide whether Kasambara, lawyer Wapona Kita and businessman Pika Manondo indeed have a case that they ought to be prosecuted for. Kasambara in a letter sent to […]
Getrude Lutepo, wife to chief cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo was picked by Fiscal Police in Blantyre on Wednesday for interrogation on her husband’s involvement in the scam, as Nyasa Times recently reported that Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) had threatened an arrest on her and Lutepo’s daughter. The top prosecutor warned Lutepo that he risks […]
The case in which renowned lawyer Ralph Kasambara, businessman Pika and his elder brother Dauka, Robert Kadzuwa and Mac Donald Kumwembe are charged of allegedly conspiring and attempting to kill 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 […]
A chief suspect in Malawi’s “Cashgate” corruption scandal, who was a high-ranking official and financier of ex-president Joyce Banda’s People’s Party, Oswald Lutepo has sealed a deal to be State witness to implicate Banda and avoid custodial sentence. Lutepo was arrested in November last year for money laundering after he allegedly pocketed $6 million from […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Tuesday rejected a request by former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara, Pika Manondo and others to discharge the case in which they accused of conspiracy, possession of property suspected to have been stolen and money laundering involving K5 billion. Kasambara, also private practice lawyer, applied to the High Court on Monday to discharge the […]
Special prosecutor in Malawi’s Cashgate cases has revealed that further investigations into the theft of public money has shown that the chief suspect did not only siphon K3.1 billion from government confers instead the money stolen by the chief suspect alone is K4.3 billion. The revelation from the Special Prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu comes just days […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Friday adjourned the case o f the attempted murder of former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo in which lawyer Ralph Kasambara, businessperson Pika Manondo, Dauka Manondo, Robert Kadzuwa and Macdonald Kumwembe are charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. The suspects have pleaded not guilty to charges. […]
Two top Peoples Party (PP) strongmen gave gunshot survivor and former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo 10 days to authorise payments or risk his life. The two big shots are party’s Vice-President for the South Brown Mpinganjira and former party spokesperson Hophmally Makande. Mphwiyo was testifying in court on Wednesday in a case in which car […]
Gun-shot survivor former budget director Paul Mphwiyo has implicated former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara and businessman Pika Manondo as among those responsible for attempting to murder him. Testifying as prosecution witness in the trial a High Court in Lilongwe , Mphwiyo who was shot as he drove into his Area 43 home in Lilongwe, said […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday moved his court to Area 43 in Lilongwe the residence of former Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo where it started hearing testimony from a security guard who said he heard three gun shots but did not see any of the suspects. Former Justice Minister Ralph […]
High Court Judge Michael Mtambo on Thursday ordered the prosecution in the former budget director Paul Mphwiyo attempted murder case to start parading witnesses gainst former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara and others. Prosecution has asked for an an adjournment but Justice Mtambo refused to grant them, saying the trial should proceed from this afternoon. Kasambara, […]
High Court Judge Chifundo Kachale on Tuesday ruled against former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara, one of those answering charges of money laundering involving more than K5 billion and other charges surrounding Malawi’s cashgate scandal, who demanded that special state prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu should not continue handling the case. Kasambara, his law firm Ralph and Arnolds, […]
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara who is one of those answering charges of money laundering involving more than K5 billion and other charges surrounding Malawi’s cashgate scandal has demanded that special state prosecutor Kamudoni Nyasulu should not continue handling the case. Kasambara, his law firm Ralph and Arnolds, his partner Wapona Kita, along businessman Pika […]
Businessperson Pika Manondo who is one of the suspects in former Malawi budget director shooting has been allowed to go home on bail after Supreme Court Judge Jane Ansah gave bail conditions on Tuesday. Justice Ansah imposed a K200, 000 cash bail bond on Manondo and that he should provide two sureties each bonded K500, […]
Judge Jane Ansah, SC of the Supreme Court of Appeal in Malawi has granted bail to businessperson Pika Manondo who is the one of the suspects in the attempted murder of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo and is also accused of laundering $184 500 (about K75 million) is unfit to go on trial, his lawyer has […]