Malawian professor of law, Danwood Chirwa, has commented on the public debate on lawyers answering criminal charges to continue representing clients in court, saying it is morally wrong. The debate has been going on in social media and Nyasa Times discussion section after former justice minister Ralph Kasambara who is facing charges in conspiracy, possession […]
Former ruling People’s Party (PP) spokesman Hophmally Makande has been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Tuesday morning after he turned himself in. According to ACB spokesman Egritta Ndala, Makande handed himself over to the bureau after he heard that the body was looking for him in Blantyre. Nyasa Times had earlier reported that Makande, Brown […]
Former deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Nelson Bophani, who was also chairing the Investigation Committee on the “cashgate” scandal, a systematic looting of public money, has been earmarked for arrest , Nyasa Times understands. Bophani is among suspects targeted for arrests who include top civil servant, politicians Brown Mpinganjira and Hophmally Makande. Anti Corruption Bureau […]
Malawi’s former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara who is answering charges over the shooting of a former budget director Paul Mphwiyo and another offence of money laundering in connection with the infamous cashgate scandal, has been euphoric with the arrest of Mphwiyo and his wife. Mphwiyo and his wife Thandie were detained by the Anti-Corruption Bureau […]
Malawi former President Joyce Banda through her lawyer on Monday made an application to High Court registry in Zomba to join Oswald Lutepo’s money laundering case as an interested party which the court has accepted. Banda made application after obtaining an injunction preventing the release of her call logs to main suspect in the cashgate […]
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government has taken its brinkmanship game to another level by resorting to cook up evidence to link former president Joyce Banda to the infamous theft of public money popularly known as the ‘Cashgate scandal’. During his inauguration as President earlier this year, Prof Peter Mutharika declared that dealing with Cashgate […]
Businessperson Caroline Savala has a case to answer for theft and money laundering charges in relation to the cashgate scandal, High Court in Lilongwe ruled. Savala is accused of siphoning about K84.9 million (US$206 068) of public money through alleged dubious contracts that never supplied anything to government. She will have to defend herself in […]
The Lilongwe High Court has adjourned the case in which lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Pika Manondo, Dauka Manondo and others are answering charges of attempted murder and conspiracy to murder former budget director Paul Mphwiyo to November 12. The case will run for three days up to November 14. One of the defence team lawyers Wapona Kita […]
The State has added businessman Oswald Lutepo, the chief suspect in the systematic plunder of government money, dubbed ‘cashgate’, as one of the accused persons in an attempted murder case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo. Lutepo now joins lawyer Ralph Kasambara, Pika Manondo, Dauka Manondo and others answering to the same charges. Director of Public […]
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 […]
Former Justice Minister and private practice lawyer Ralph Kasambara has asked the High Court in Lilongwe to discharge the case in which he and others are answering charges of money laundering involving K5 billion . Kasambara and fellow lawyer Wapona Kita are also accused of conspiracy, possession of property suspected to have been stolen amounting […]
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 […]
Glens Waterways Limited (GWL) has described a news article that appeared in The Nation of August 8, 2014, headlined ‘Kasambara takes on Mphwiyo’ as “malicious and false”. The company also says there was “gross mispresentation” of facts concerning alleged payments made to GWL. In the said article, the paper reported accused person Ralph Kasambara (in […]
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort”–Confucius The temptation was fever high to ‘muckrake’ what was happening between Area 3 and Area 43 in Lilongwe during the past week. The Paul Mphwiyo-Ralph Kasambara duel is stuff for the movies. But they say we may not substantially comment on on-going […]
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. […]
The High Court in Lilongwe on Thursday afternoon ordered gun-shot survivor former budget director Paul Mphwiyo to help the state to trace a Toyota Fortuner registration ZA 7171 . The vehicle was the center of the cross-examination the whole day since it was the one Mphwiyo used the night he was shot, and was damaged in the […]
Former Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo on Thursday politician-cum –lawyer Henry Phoya to the list of some ministers who were pressurising him to approve payments to some companies, among them Glens Waterways and Deco/Terrastone which was claiming K9 billion. During his first day of testifying as a witness in his shooting case at the High […]
The defence lawyers on Wednesday night tried to poke holes in the highly emotional testimony of gun-shot survivor former Malawi Ministry of Finance budget director Paul Mphwiyo in his shooting case. The High Court in Lilongwe Wednesday close to midnight moved to the residence of Mphwiyo in Area 43 the scene of his shooting. The […]