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 […]
Businessman Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in ‘cashgate’, the systematic plunder of government money, has he feels fooled by prosecution that he was going to State witness “not knowing I was just being used to lie against myself as well,” and is calling for government to reboot Cashgate investigation and make fresh interrogations before trial. Lutepo said he wants to […]
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, […]
State prosecutor in the ongoing Malawi’s Cashgate cases have disclosed that they have evidence which shows that businessperson Osward Lutepo and the country’s former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Ralph Kasambara were working together to steal and launder money from government coffers. The money connected to the two and other suspects amount to almost […]
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, […]
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein The epistle according to ‘Chief Cashgater’ Oswald Lutepo makes for some interesting reading. This is supposed to be a bomb-shell in what can perhaps pass as the worst financial scandal to rock Malawi in the 50 years the country has been […]
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 […]
The court trial of the shooting of former Budget Director, Paul Mphwiyo, which has begun in earnest promises to unearth some America’s Al Capon type of underhand practices and dirty dealings. At the moment, it seems the main man is Osward Lutepo, one time fugitive and state witness, and, now, not very state witness. Lutepo, […]
One of the suspects in the Cashgate trial, Victor Sithole, is likely going to be acquitted in a case he has been charged with being found in possession of unexplained large amounts of money, a law expert has observed. Sithole answer charges in connection with large amounts of money including K112 million, $31 800 and […]
Malawi law experts have argued that businessman and one of the suspects in the Cashgate scandal, Oswald Lutepo, risks facing fresh charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for his claims that he was coerced into writing false witness and caution statements with a view to implicate former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara. In a letter […]
Businessman and Cashgate suspect Oswald Lutepo has written a letter to Attorney General Kalekeni Kaphale complaining that Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Bruno Kalemba intimidated him to implicate former justice minister Ralph Kasambara in the attempted murder of former treasury official Paul Mphwiyo. In the letter dated July 17, 2014, Lutepo has also accused former justice minister Fahadi […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has ordered the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to release recordings of mobile phone conversations( call logs) in which some people are said to have issued former Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo with death threats. Judge Michael Mtambo made the order Thursday morning following an application by […]
High Court in Lilongwe has ordered Maxwell Namata and Luke Kasamba who have been charged with theft and money laundering in the ongoing Capital Hill Cashgate trials, to defend themselves. The two businessmen pleaded not guilty to the two counts that they stole K24 million from government and proceeded to use the proceeds for their […]
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, […]
Malawi law experts have dismissed as inconsequential President Joyce Banda statement on Saturday that she was annulling the country’s presidential election because of “irregularities” and ordered a fresh vote in 90 days. University of Malawi’s Constitutional Law expert, Edge Kanyongolo, said the Malawian president has no power to order a fresh election and nullify the […]
Law experts have argued that State Vice President Khumbo Kachali, who has resigned from People’s Party to rejoin opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) cannot be disqualified as parliamentary candidate for Mzimba South West. PP officials are asking the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to consider postpone elections in the constituency which Kachale was contesting as a […]