Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has said it is still investigating businessperson Zameer Karim on the Malawi Police Service (MPS) food rations scam after the bureau was advised on the matter by two legal independent practitioners. Karim, whose Pioneer Investments donated K145 million to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) through a Standard Bank account which President Peter […]
Justice Rezine Mzikamanda of the Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed an application made by businessman Zamir Karim and his Pioneer Investment (PI) to strike out the notice of appeal by Mzuzu-based Youth and Society in a case in which it dragged PI and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to court over the K2.7 billion […]
The Supreme Court of Malawi in Blantyre has overturned the High Court’s earlier ruling that Youth And Society (YAS) did not have sufficient interest in the K145 million food rations deal. YAS executive Director Charles Kajoloweka confirmed the development with Nyasa Times on Friday Mzuzu-based civil society organisation (CSO)dragged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Pioneer […]
High Court last week put aside a freeze order, granting businessman Zameer Karim of Pioneer Investment Limited, the Malawi Police food rations supplier who deposited K145 million into a governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) account whose sole signatory is President Peter Mutharika, to access his bank accounts who cashed the money held at First Merchant […]
Ecobank (Malawi) Limited has dragged Attorney General on behalf of Malawi Police and Zameer Karim of Piooner Investment Limited over a failed loan settlement amounting to K850 million. According to court documents of a commercial case number 269 of 2018 file don August 17 2018 seen by Nyasa Times, Ecobank is claiming K850 million as […]
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director General Reyneck Matemba has said the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) returned to Pioneer Investment the contentious K145 million donation suspected to have been proceeds of crime in much-publicised Malawi Police Service (MPS) food rations scam but the moneyhas been withheld. Matemba said the money was given to Pioneer’s boss Zameer Karim but […]
The ruling by High Court judge Jack N’riva to dismiss the matter in which Youth And Society (YAS) dragged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Pioneer Investments to court over the K145 million food rations deal is not a victory to DPP as bigger problem for government remains “a negative perception” in terms of fighting corruption, […]
The High Court in Blantyre has deferred a decision on whether Youth And Society (YAS) is an interested party in the case where it dragged Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Pioneer Investments to court over the K145 million food rations deal. High Court Judge Jack N’riva was expected to make a determination on the matter on […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has cleared President Peter Mutharika of any wrong doing in the K145 million donations suspected to have been proceeds of crime in much-publicised Malawi Police Service (MPS) food rations scam. The K145 million payout to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was deposited by Pioneer Investment Limited in a bank account for which President […]
The High Court in Blantyre on Friday condemned the Youth and Society (YAS) to costs for causing an adjournment in a high profile case of K2.7 billion policegate case and will have to pay the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Pioneer Investments (PI) and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). When the case – which also involves President […]
The High Court in Blantyre has ordered Nation Bank of Malawi to freeze the account held by Piooner Investment (PI) Limited linked to K2.7 million Malawi Police food ration scam following an application by the Youth and Society (YAS)—on behalf of Malawians—that the company has a corruption case to answer. The order has the governing […]
A Malawian private practice lawyer says it would be difficult to convict Pioneer Investments on the Malawi Police Service (MPS) food ration scam based on the evidence that the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has compiled on the case. Speaking exclusively to Nyasa Times, the lawyer, who refused to be named due to the sensitivity of the […]
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society (YAS) has again written another letter through Ritz Attorneys-at-Law to Attorney General Charles Mhango querying him why his office committed government to pay CDH Investment Bank , on behalf of a private contractor – Pioneer Investments (PI) Limited in the k2.7 billion Malawi Police Service (MPS) food rations deal. A leaked […]
Mzuzu-based Youth and Society organisation has asked the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to refund K145 million which was deposited in the party’s Standard Bank account by businessman Zameer Karim of Pioneer Investment who is facing investigations on fraud. There have been mounting calls for President Peter Mutharika’sresignation after a leaked report by the Anti-Corruption […]
Amidst the hullabaloo that has engulfed the country following the leaked document allegedly from the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB), someone said Malawians are fond of passing judgment on fellow Malawians without looking at the proper merits of the issue at hand. He equated the current ‘Policegate’ saga to the mob justice practice popular in the […]
Quasi religious body, the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) has added its voice to calls for President Peter Mutharika to step aside following reports that his party has benefitted from public money loot through a dubious police contract of food supply. PAC spokesperson Reverend Father Peter Mulomole was referring to a K145 million deposited in the […]
President Peter Mutharika rejects calls for his resignation after a leaked dossier from the country’s anti-graft body accused him of beneffiting from proceeds of fraud. Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has been investigating a $3.9 million Malawi police food supply contract awarded to Pioneer Investments, a firm owned by businessman Zameer Karim, who deposited K145 million into an account belonging […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader Lazarus Chakwera on Monday called for President Peter Mutharika to resign over allegations he received a K145 million ( ($200,000) kickback from a K2.3 billion (about $4 million) government contract. Chakwera told a news conference in Lilongwe after Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) leaked investigations report on transactions involving Malawi Police Service and […]