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Former minister Mwale re-arrested after state enters Nolle prosequi

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File: Former Mines minister Maxwell Mwale and Chinese state grid corporation executive vice president Shu Yinbiao exchange notes in Lusaka

Former mines minister has been re-arrested and charged with two counts of corruption and being in possession of property believed to be proceeds of crime shortly after the state entered a Nolle prosequi.

Mr. Mwale’s re- arrest is in connection with similar matters involving bicycles of which Lusaka chief resident magistrate Joshua Banda has discharged him.

This was after Director of Public Prosecutions-DPP- Mutembo Nchito, appeared in court following a court order and entered a Nolle prosequi in a theft case involving bicycles.

Mr. Nchito said that the move was to allow for consolidation of the theft case with other matters which were under investigations. He said this is meant to help Mr. Mwale address his mind to one particular case thereby avoiding multiplicity of cases.

And defense lawyer, Sakwiba Sikota, has applied that the state pays three hundred and fifty thousand kwacha being legal costs incurred by Mr. Mwale in this matter. Mr. Sikota claims the costs incurred by Mr. Mwale are as a result of the state’s inadequacies’.

But Mr. Nchito has objected to the application saying the states move discontinue Mr. Mwale’s case is another way of helping reduce of legal expenses.

And the joint government investigations team has formally charged and arrested Mr. Mwale with being in possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime.
He has also been charged with corrupt practices.

In the first offence he is alleged to have imported five thousand bicycles into the country suspected to be proceeds of crime worth over one billion Kwacha.

Regarding corrupt practices, Mr. Mwale is alleged to have received over four hundred million Kwacha from a named mining firm as reward to facilitate issuance of a mining license.

Joint government investigative team, Public Relations Officer, Charity Munganga-Chanda says Mr. Mwale is currently on a fifty million Kwacha bond with two working surities and will appear in court on April 4th 2012.

MUVI TV

32 COMMENTS

  1. Good job, Arrest these vile stinking, disgusting MMD thugs still driving on our streets with flashy cars purchased from proceeds from stinking corruption. Time to wipe those smug smiles off their fat sweaty mugs.

  2. Long overdue. This chap had it coming. No sympathy for him. They need to speed up the other cases. Musokotwane, Mutati, Liato you are next. Prepare underwear made of metal. There are some hungry boys waiting for you in Chimbokaila.

  3. #4 KISSING-DUST-MADE-SIMPLE — Lol!! Your name is very original!! Try enter it in the Guinness Book of World Records, I’m sure they would list it! Lol!

  4. These are chaps are behind all those raw mining deals you chaps are ranting and moaning about today  in the mines, the lowly paid miner’s wage packages, all for what? A small brown envelope stuffed with $20,000.

  5. Rupiah Banda told Sata before the September 2011 elections that he (Sata) would lose the elections and kiss the dust. It seems appropriate to remind people about this every time the MMD crooks are caught with their equipment dangling aimlessly in the wind.

  6. This is now victimization. Why did you enter in to a Nolle prosequi? Justice delayed and denied is justice not served. 

    • The DPP has not wrapped up several related cases and would like to deliver judgement of all cases in one go is the impression I am reading here. A nolle does not mean the case has been dismissed, but that the State can arrest you when ever they feel like arresting you on the same or additional charges. Some people consider entry of a nolle more damaging than an actual conviction because it stays hanging over your head for an indeterminate period.

  7. “Mr. Mwale is alleged to have received over four hundred million Kwacha from a named mining firm as reward to facilitate issuance of a mining license.”
    The mining license should be removed immediatly and the mining firm has to be prosecuted for corruption.
    It is good to prosecute corrupt people but it is also obligatory to prosecute corrupting people if you want to get rid of corruption.

    FQM 

  8. Still waiting for a first conviction; considering Nchito prosecuted FTJ for 9yrs in futility, I won’t be holding my breath.

  9. Nchito is guilt of abuse of office. Nchito and membe think they are the smartest kids in zambia. Their waterloo is coming

  10. I never ever in my wildest expectations hoped to see Nchito become a puppet of evil and use his power to harass innocent people, just to please The Post and the President. It is sad. He could have proceeded with trial if he has evidence but he doesn’t, so he elects to await the result of the witch hunt. Sad.

  11. Where corruption is involved there two people or parties involved in action, a corrupt and a corruptor.So in this case the state should proscute both parties involved in an act of corruption thus Mr Mwale and the company that bribed him. Would you imagine if we are still under MMD Government ? Zambia would have mess.

  12. Mwiponta Mukabwela

    Spot on…FQM can’t be charged as they have you in their pocket, remember they made it possible for poor ZNBC to televise 2012 AFCON live for the natives…I told you that these chaps were paying you with your own money.lol.. There is nothing like a free lunch in the west.
    Wake up!

  13. Mr Mwale is my mpongozi, please leave the man alone, he has suffered enough, he is stripped of his parliamentaly seat manje mumupoke manjinga , what about BRE?????

  14. dd u hear presido saying the chinese of MMd are diiferent from chinese of PF……LOL! PF is eating now with the FQM and other chinamen!

  15. PF should relaise that they will be in Government for only 5 years and after they will will be prosecuted for the corruption we are already seeing happening now.get ready PF for the same actions you are doing to your colleagues. I had a lot of respect for Lubinda but after the big blue lie he told about the reason for Sata being in India, my trust has gone.

  16. Alsthom, A french company was fined for paying a bribe in order to win a zesco contract so the Chinese company must also pay a hefty fine as a warning to would be corruptors! The corruptor corrupts the corrupt! Both are the same and should face the same consequences! TIZ move in, it pains to recall that this chap represented Zambia on the Extraction Industries’ meetings and he knows what it says about corruption and he was rewarded handsomely through utu ma per diems. WANYA!

  17. #1 Maxwell, if you looked at the backgrounds of the donchi kubeba, you are in for the shock of your life when time reveals their true character. Just look at their false promises BRE, Windfall, more money in your pockets, chase away the chinese etc etc, how many have they kept? I would advise you not to be trusting like a baby born today, at least not this early, maybe wait until 2016. Corrupt politicians normally sram to steal when elections are approaching.

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