The High Court in Blantyre has dismissed a K30 billion compensation claim which businessman Rashid Tayub and his agribusiness company Transglobe initiated against the government. Tayub and Transglobe Produce Export Limited dragged the Attorney General and the graft busting body, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to court to demand compensation following the dismissal of the infamous […]
The High Court in Blantyre has thrown out a K30 billion compensation claim by Tayub Rashid and Transglobe Produce Export Limited for loss of business and false imprisonment in the infamous maizegate scandal on technical grounds. Tayub and Transglobe had applied to the court to force the government pay them in excess of K30 billion t for loss […]
Tax-payer will be squeezed again to fork out about K30 billion if Transglobe Produce Export Limited succeeds in its compensation claim in court for loss of business and false imprisonment. Lawyer representing Transglobe, Mwayi Banda, confirmed the legal action, saying they have engaged Ritz Attorneys at Law to sue Attorney General and the Anti Corruption […]
Former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and businessperson Rashid Tayub have been acquitted after court ruled on Friday that they have no case to answer in the Zambian maize procurement case. Chaponda appeared relieved at Zomba Magistrate’s Court as Zomba chief resident magistrate Paul Chiotcha prounuced his determination. The court acquitted […]
Lawyers for former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda and Transglobe’s Director Rashid Tayub in the corruption-related case on Monday described oral submissions by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) as lacking substance and full of contradictions. ACB arrested Chaponda, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice-president for Southern Region, last year alongside Tayub for suspected […]
Lawyers for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for the South George Chaponda and Transglobe’s Director Rashid Tayub on Friday submitted for a ‘no case to answer’ defense before the Zomba Senior Resident Magistrate in the Zambia maize procurement deal. Chaponda is answering three charges which include giving false information to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), […]
Lawyers for Radhid Tayub, director of Transglobe Produce Limited, the locally registered company and farm produce trader, have submitted to court that he has ‘no case to answer’ ito the charge of persuading a public officer to misuse his position in the Zambia maize procurement scandal. A no case to answer submission is done whereby a defendant seeks […]
When the local press ‘exposed’ the maize deal where Agricultural development and Marketing corporation (Admarc) ‘flouted procedures’ to buy 100,000 Metric Tonnes of maize from neighbouring Zambia at a whooping price of US$34 million (Approx K26 billion), everyone was livid with anger. The press was awash with stories on how Admarc dealt with a middle […]
State prosecutors had a rude awakening on Tuesday at Zomba Magistrate Court court when its 11th witness, Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe vindicated claims made by former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda in the case relating to the Zambian maize import transactions that he got permit to keep […]
Two officials from Agricultural development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) have disclosed in court that Transglobe Export Produce Limited had no contract with the grain marketer to supply maize from Zambia even though it delivered the maize after former Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda influenced the deal. The case involves Chaponda and […]
Zomba Magistrate’s Court on Thursday denied the request by Rashid Tayub, director of Transglobe Produce Limited, to split the corruption case in which also involves Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, George Chaponda. In their arguments, Tayub’s lawyers said they believed it was in the best interest of their client and his businesses for the matter to […]
Rashid Tayub, one of the directors at Transglobe Produce Export Limited. wants a separate trial from his co-defendant former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda in the Zambia maize purchase case in which he is accused of corruption. His lawyers brought an application before Blantyre chief resident magistrate Simeon Mdezato have a split […]
Mulanje South lawmaker Bon Kalindo for the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has said Malawi Parliament should be vigilant against Asian business community from abusing local citizens. Kalindo, who is also a comedian popularly known by his stage name Winiko, said this in the House regarding the court order that Transglobe Limited issued to Parliamentary Committee on […]
Blantyre Magistrate Simeon Mdeza who was asked to recuse himself from hearing the corruption-related case involving former minister of Agriculture George Chaponda and director of Transglobe Produce Limited, Rashid Tayub has rejected the application. Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has filed an application requesting the recusal of Mdeza following his remarks last Thursday during a meeting in […]
Instead of calling the other witnesses to the stand in the trial against former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda over a maize procurement contract, on Tuesday, the State asked Blantyre Chief Resident Magistrate Simeon Mdeza to recuse himself from the corruption –related trial. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) were set to parade […]
Speaker of National Assembly, Richard Msowoya, on Thursday told Members of Parliament that a court case involving Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee of Agriculture, Joseph Chidanti Malunga and Transglobe Produce Export Limited, will not affect Friday parliament proceedings. Msowoya, who is also the Vice President for main opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP), said this Thursday morning […]
Lawyer representing former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development George Chaponda has expressed his desire for a speedy trial, saying the corruption-related case of the controversial procurement of maize from Zambia should be finalised with no further postponements. The State on asked for the adjournment, citing that some of its prosecution witnesses were members […]
The case of the controversial procurement of maize from Zambia continued on Wednesday as the State paraded its second witness—former Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) Director of Operations Feckson Kantonga —telling the Blantyre Magistrate’s Court that on two occasions Transglobe Produce Export Limited which was referred by former minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water […]