Former Republican President, Frederick Chiluba has this afternoon been found with a case to answer. This is in a case in which he is accused of stealing public funds amounting to $488,000.He faces a minimum of five years in jail if found guilty.
The Lusaka Magistrate Court has consequently asked Dr. Chiluba and his co accused, to defend themselves. Magistrate Jones Chinyama set the trial date for May 5. Chiluba denies any wrongdoing.
The former president is accused along with former Access Financial Services Chief Executive Officer, Faustine Kabwe and Managing Director, Aaron Chungu.
They all face 12 counts of theft.
Dr. Chiluba and his co-accused are expected to start their defence at the next court hearing scheduled for May.
Principle Resident Magistrate, Jones Chinyama was satisfied that the prosecution has proved its case against Dr. Chiluba and his co accused beyond reasonable doubt.
Mr. Chinyama further said ledgers and other accounting documents admitted as evidence by the prosecution are conclusive and can not be easily dismissed.
The entire case revolves around funds paid to Dr. Chiluba’s children, which were trasmitted from the Zambia Security Intelligence Service account at the ZANACO Bank London branch called the Zambia Transregional Operations Account (ZAMTROP).
According to evidence produced by the prosecution team, funds were diverted from the $9.6 million meant to pay two United States firms Wilban Incorporated and Systems Innovations for upgrading security installations at several strategic government departments.
Mr. Chinyama said in his ruling delivered that Part of the funds were also used to buy houses in Lusaka’s Roma and Kabulonga residential areas for two Lusaka Lawyers, Eric Silwamba and Vincent as renumeration for defending Dr. Chiluba in the 1996 presidential petition.
Mr. Chinyama said his findings are not withstanding Dr. Chiluba’s assertions that funds paid to his children from the ZAMTROOP account were from private sources and had co mingled with the government funds in the ZAMTROP account.
But Chiluba has said some of the funds were his own money, given to him by his friends, while the rest was for national duties taken by the intelligence agency.
He is also fighting in court to block authorities from recovering $58 million that last year a London high court ruled he had to repay, with interest, for allegedly stealing while in office.
Zambia lodged the civil case in British courts in the hope of recovering properties allegedly purchased with stolen funds and owned by Chiluba and 19 other defendants in Britain and other European countries.
Chiluba has not been convicted on criminal charges of stealing the funds and he does not recognise the authority of the London court
I hope this trial take one month maximum. We have just lost too much money as a state on laywers fees. That coupled with abuse of public funds by LPM’s controlling officers since they came into power, I can bet we are talking about more money lost than the money we ate trying to recover in this case.
Please, leave the guy alone. We have alone proved a point that he abused his position. The only people benefitting from these trials are the lawyers. Our justice system is so slow that by the time the finish this case the guy will be dead!! or they will go half way spend billions of kwacha and then state will enter a nolle prosequi.
Leave the guy who gave you freedom of speech alone. Chuchu, we will see you in 2011.
Let justice prevail?
This is just an academic exercise.This is just an academic exrecise.by the time chiluba’s case will be over they will be a new president who will pardon chiluba and prosecute Chuchu.
I am not quite conversant, much less current with the facts as they relate to this serious case. However how are we going to witness an impartial trial if it has already been determined that the prosecution has proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt before trial?
Icalo ukuwama ichotukashila ba kabwalala. These guys are thieves and due process will prove it. Jail them kapish.
Zesco is an incopetent company.The MD Sisala need to be fired.Have never seen such an incompentent i.d.i.ot.We have enough hydropower in zambia but these so called id.iots have failed to harness power.They are now subjecting us to load sheeding.Ba makaka ba zesco mwanya.Its been too much and the people of zambia have kept quite.People rise up Zesco is a public entity and needs to save the people of zambia.I know sisala is from the family tree thats why he seems to be untouchable. He is indeed an idi.ot
Sorry guys for bringing up a different topic but surely Sisala must be fired.I lost a fridge and a plasma TV coz of power outages.And ba makaka cant even compensate me.Zesco has indeed gone to the dogs.
Good progress made! Let them defend themselves now! #2 who are the ‘we’ you are talking about?
The guy is saving his failing heart for mukobeko prison. By the way, when is he going to SA for another lease of life?
Excuse and pleaseee educate me, all these years you mean the court was just on preliminary issue? Given the time it has taken to wind up on the preliminaries, I wonder how long it is going to take for the trial. Like someone pointed out, it is the lawyer’s case. How prudent is it that the London court started the case after our Zambia, courts and still managed to dispose of the case while our court was still on preliminaries. Talk about the efficiecncy of our court system, WOW!
I think it’s time to leave Chiluba alone. Courts should not be used to harass one’s enemies. It has been more than six years since the man’s immunity was lifted. Any serious courts manned by law men with half a brain cell would have concluded the case one way or the other. LPM and his minions are not serious. It is time they discontinued this charade. Lawyers are getting richer but there is no justice for the down-trodden Zambian tax payer. Sad!
zambian politics is interesting..
You mean Chiluba’s case has not been concluded yet? I was telling a fellow Zambia yesterday that I am sure the courts have concluded on the matter and judgement has been passed. Well well well, how embarrasing for me. I should read the Post more.
bullsit! bullsit! Yes bullsit! Where on earth can a case take forever to conclude. somebody is using this this case to build up his political profile – painting a picture to the internation community that the presido of Zambia has no tolarance on corruption. There is too much hypocrisy going on. Katele Kalumba can not be convicted because he is not an international figure like FTJ. LPM, stop the circus because your goverment is like a tray of rotten fruits. Iam not supporting FTJ but I feel that you are using FTJ as a sacrificaial lamb for your own selfish political ambitions to the international community.By the way let the public Know how much has been spent in handling this case.
Leave Chiluba alone you guys.Chuchu has also got his own case to answer already as billions of American dollars are missing in the governmentcoffers and compared that to what Chiluba is being prosecuted I think it is just a drop in the ocean.Chuchu has failed to govern Zambia and he should just go.
Donot envy the possession of a wicked man.See there ending and you shall see how they shrink like a rose flower left in the Sun.These are men who used to do anything with the poor people’s money,but now time has come for them to pay back of their evil ways.
The Bible says,”As surely as I live,declares the Lord,whatsoever a man soweth that he shall reap”.
Lets learn from this all of us and start to store our treasures in Heaven where man can not reach.
Nshikwete namashiwi!!
19# who are you? stop the impersonation here. Just contribute positively my brother
Abdulaziz walid boyi waishiba fye bola yaba egypt! This short former prez MUST be JAILED
Number 9? Are you part of the professionals from western province.Are you Dr Doodoo? always keep a generator for back up?
Iyee!
What is wrong with Africans? Reports from Northern Nigeria say a modern quiped hospital has been burned to ashes before it was due to open next month. Its believed that arsonist set the fire. Surprisingly the hospital was completed in 2006 was ready for use. Just because a president didnot come to cut the libbon it was not opened until now that its burned to ashes. People have been dying in the area of deadly dieases. Shame on you who have stoped thinking.
#9 a plasma TV doesn’t mean the TV you lost that showed the red cross and mosquito blood . a jo sacker isn’t a fridge.
# 5 what kind of legal expert tyolaz chizungu so? even your punctuation has kwashiokor
#24, Northern Nigeria is terrorised by Islamic fundamentalists. They burn people alive and kill everyone on the bus except the driver to go back south and tell the story simply because they are Christians from the south or are of different ethnicity. So do not be surprised by such illiterate behaviour. They need deliverance from the spirit of Muhammad.
Dont worry Feddy, umyche castro nga aingila plot 1 , we will aslo terrorise mwanawase. every dog has a bonzo one day. We will the bonzo 2 times.
# 29 Your personal attack on me is pathetic and i will make sure that i get the IP Address of your Pc. Its easy to track you and i will do it.You are very stupid and shallow minded.If you failed to reach my level of education thats not my problem.Continue attacking me and you will see.
#25 Your personal attack on me is pathetic and i will make sure that i get the IP Address of your Pc. Its easy to track you and i will do it.You are very stupid and shallow minded.If you failed to reach my level of education thats not my problem.Continue attacking me and you will see.
# 29 LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD). Ba leigo stop your verbal vomitting. Ka plasm from pludered pubic funds and you want to scare us with too ma IP adresess. How can a paraffin fridge be affected by black outs ?. And those certificates you buy from matero dosen’t make you are a lego expart.
For embarrassing his appointee, biting the finger that fed him and for putting our judicial system in disrepute tukamumona mu 2011. Cheer up FTJ!
This is a waste of time and money, leave the man alone and let us make sure that we reduce the powers of the president in our new consititution.
We have made our presidents uncheckable, untouchable, uncontrollable,unanswerable and unstoppable.
It will be batter to stop them when they are in office before they misuse our money than go after them when they are out of office and end up spending more money in trying to convict them and they end up in prison without us recovering a pany out of them.zambians think.
Africans can never rule themselves bottom line. You can have all the worlds systems in place but if you dont have the system of trust, you are nothing. Something Zambians and Africans generally lack.
#29 Imwe ba Legal Expert, stop threatening people like that. This is just how blogs and freedom of speech work on the internet. Welcome to the club!! A lot of us have been at the end of this and have learned to live with this new way of communication and our contributions really get whacked here without favour or respect of status. You are just as equal as somebody who has never been to school when you come here to blog. People treat you based on what you write and nothing else.
I doubt you would retrieve anybody’s IP address without permission from LT.The fact that LT don’t show people IPs on the site proves that they will not give it to anybody and besides you blog without registration.
# 29. LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD )
Insead of crying about a plasma Tv made in kosovo mybe you can tell us why the case took so long from the goverments point of view, that is if those lego papers are not from matero university.
I would like our government to give an acount on how much money used on these cases, and further ask them to publish finacial statements on every single coin donated or allocated towards the Chiluba cases and others, how much the lawyers have been paid and yet to be paid? we must have these informations on our minds coz its our money and the gvt. is obligated to do so.
The government is indebted to us.There’s nothing like top secret or confidential coz thats where corruption is incubated.
Let this gvmt.be transiparent as a class.Lets embrace technology by introducing electronics on data and give the public access to all gvt.dealings.web page for our gvmt and kep truck on the moneys givn.
Chiluba and others derseves free and fair trial! but our system is dennying them.Criminal cases donot last that long and our courts are not that busy that they can’t conclud these cases on time. they make unreasonable adjournments, months in between! what for?.”Justice delayed is justice denied” Look at whats happening now! people are tired of stories and now they are sympathizing with them(chiluba and others) coz it has taken long! main people are advocating to stop the case nw and concertrate on other developmental issues.
Shame on the people behind the poor failed system.
Our representative have been traveling all over the world and totally fail to even copy from well defined systems
#34 chanda phiri- My qualifications are very authentic and my friend its very easy to retrieve the IP address from LT.What works in zambia is money thats all.I have the money and power to trace anyone who insults me.This is not a just mere threat but just to remind you guys to mind the language you use when blogging.If u think u will be insulting people in the name of blogging then one of you will end up in prison.
You LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD )what prision can you have someone sent to ?. That power and plundered funds is for harrassing mishanga sellers only. You are talking like yuo live in a jungle. Who can you scare, atassee.
#34 Gee..we have a situation here. I guess “ZOZE are ZOZE and this one is ANAZA”. Mr Legal Expert I don’t doubt your qualification and honestly I wouldn’t care less whether they were fake or genuine. Am not out to hire you, so why should I care? So, are you saying you will pay whatever money it takes to LT to get the IP address just because money works in Zambia? That sounds like corruption at it’s best. It’s sad that we still have people who think they can buy their way into anything. It will be even more more sad if LT can be bought by people like you to just settle scores. Anyway good luck in your endeavour..include my IP address on your list. I guess old school is still alive and well
I think this LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD )is a full blown certified ***** suffering from Permanent Head Damage(PHD). He thinks he is still in KK or Chiluba era with Vigilantes. Which credible institution gave this village ***** a qualification or should I say which make up artist put lipstick on this pig? You come here with your Kaponya threats and think we shall quake? You are so out of touch with reality my friend. The world has moved on and you are so far behind, you think you are first. Am sure you bought your papers with ZAMTROP funds, hence the noise. There are many qualified people on this blog who don’t even mention their qualification.
#41 and Chanda phiri you are in trouble.You dont know the person you rae dealing with.You have insulted me and on Monday i will file papers at the high court and LT will be subpoenad to appear before the judge.I will fight you guys and it will be a good law research for it will set a precedence for future cases.
Its pathetic how Luapulans are clumbering here saying a stinking thief should be left aone, atase! You guys are a shameful lot
My observation, whenever the issue of Kafupi comes up pipo crash here on the net, why? I believe some of you benefited to the corrupted system in the second republic. You thought things will not change. Move with time boys. I stopped contributing like I used to do in the past because of this kind of tension.
LEGAL EXPERT(42)
Cut your hyperventilations laden with hyperboles. Acquaint yourself with cyber laws and test for free speech. Stop bringing the legal fraternity (profession) to ridicule. Not all patrons here are illiterate to buy in your passion for the legal profession. Phising is a very complicated and legally challenged undertaking mostly a preserve of statecrafts under some security act. I presume you have heard Bush pleading with the senate after its expiration.
am giving Chocha and Chanda phiri 24 hrs to tender in your apologies failure to do so will result in instituting legal procedings against you two.Iam proud of my qualifications thats why am not ashamed to disclose.If you are jealous thats your own problem.How many post Doctoral fellows in law are ther in zambia? For your own information am also a legal adviser for the EU commisioner.Am just in zambia on Holiday and i will use my financial muscle to ensure that you shallow minded bloggers are prosecuted.
You LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD), Stop smoking what ever you smoke.
The only pipo you can sue with your Matero uni papers are LT if ICT laws in zambia are upto date. Were is the ACC, you are advocating corruption by wanting to use plundered funds to buy info from LT.
If you carry on with your kaponya threats i will report you to the FBI as a potential terrorist. You will wake up in guantanomo bay.
By the way its not a sin for educated people to include the qualifications after the name.Its an accepted norm and its a pity that most of you boggers seem to be out of touch.am not boasting but it pays to be educated.
#47 LT is liable to disclose information when ordered by court otherwise the site can be closed.
Ok LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD), without threats we can have a civil blogsphare. Not beacuse of your kaponya threats, but you are sounding more civil. i was a bit board mweee.
Kachiluba Nika Zayelo.. I think this guy has been bleaching his Skin and now look pale like maSOLOLA
balegal epert banveka monga ni ba kaponya. matero university products
Sorry legal ***** no apologies from this end till Jesus returns..just go ahead with your corrupt nonsense. I await your summons from the Kaponya court of Matero founded by Matero university for people like you to practice.
ni shani bane kanshi
BA LEGAL ***** BA VUTA
Boys does someone know where the Pan African Institute of Development Studies-Eastern and Southern Africa situated in Kabwe? Unbelievable that money laundry has been going on since it was formed in 1978. I wonder how a Nigerian ended up being a director there. ZambÃa is real short of leaders. No wonder we have been ruled by foreigners.
Welcome to cyber space 🙂 And just a caution, after smoking hemp rest for a while before yo join this blog, otherwise you will be chasing shadows (or to use cyber terminology, IP addresses)!
Now that Zayelo has been found with a case. We’ll start hearing that the chap was rushed to UTH because he had fainted at home due to his failing heart. And he’s to be mute. Just pay back.
We knew like 8 years ago that these thieves had a case to answer.
This is a circus and will end up in a nolle prosecue – watch the way bum bounces!
I am writing from Dar es Salaam. Having being brought up in Zambia, Chiluba should face acute punishment as we are doing here to our corrput Prime Minister Edward Lowassa, his two former finance ministers and the former Reserve Bank Governor. Does he remember what he did to the innocent Kenneth Kaunda? He should also face music. Alex Mawazo Kasengo, Dar es Salaam, [email protected]
in my opinion, the whole system is a big fraud! how much money has the mwanawasa govt. spend on this case alone? guess it will soon be more than what chiluba and co. are accussed of stealing. who knows, maybe it has already. the govt. isn’t serious enough. they are just showing what our politics are all about. we have more problems.
The major contribution to the delayed Chiluba trial is the continued adjournment by the Chiluba legal team citing ” medical issues”.
In this case the State should adhere to due process until these cases are disposed of in the courts of law.
This notion that somehow Chiluba is being persecuted for political reasons is pandering to cheap and sectarian politics. We, the people of Zambia, through our Attorney General have a strong prema fasie suggesting that Chiluba defrauded and grossly mismanaged our resources.
Let him attend court and prove our case against him otherwise. We are a nation of laws, if he is innocent he will walk and, equally so, if he committed the crimes he must do the time.
#56. The new location is on Munkoyo Road next to Nkrumah Teachers’ College.
Sorry guys but this FJT blog topic has being going on for 8 years.
Maybe LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD) can tell us how he will use his financial muscle to find pipo calling his papers metro uni certified and your Plasma tv was made in kosovo.
Hey guys cut the shit and talk relevant issues,we are not interested in personal attacks! We are brothers lets unit and talk peace! forgive one another. I am sory but we need to talk about the subject matter,not attacking each other.
You are learned! am just a simple young man who is dissappointed at the way we zambian attack each other.When the world out there knows us as friendly and peaceful.
Forgive and forget!
Lets talk about chiluba or come up with other topics!
A case taking more than 5 years! Mwabathu chalo chichali chakunangika! Ndipo chikulengeska chomene! Anyway, now that we are finally getting there, we want to have every chap who participated in these shameful activities brought to justice and most importantly to pay back the money, it must be recovered at all costs. Infact there are a lot of chaps who have properties that they cannot account for, especially civil servants, ZRA etc. We must be seen to get down to low levels inorder to make a difference! A Kafupi mwatilengeska, just say sorry and bring back the cash, Zambians are very forgiving, its our nature and we are proud of it!
LEGAL EXPERT(LLB,PHD) I think if you were to take up the case in Zambia, you would find that there are no laws covering such issues. Zambia does not yet have effective ICT laws besides, LT is not registered in Zambia so they can’t be “stup down” from within Zambia. The best thing you can do is just to contribute to the topics because if you are shopping around for respect and praise, you might not find it online, on blogs.
#65 thanks for your wonderful contribution.Ladies and Gentlemen let us talk peace and stop personal attacks.Now as regards Chiluba’s court case.The man is a dribler and he will use all the tactics at his disposal to ensure that the case is delayed.If it has taken 6 yrs for chiluba to be found with a case to answer,it will take another 6 yrs for the man to be convicted and that will be in 2014.
FTJ once said that he`ll never spend a single day in LPM`s prison and that was seven years ago.We`re all wasting our breath and energies thinking that FTJ will one day be locked up.What we`re experiencing is simply refered to as POLITICAL TRIANGULATION.Whether we like it or not,these lawyers have syphoned more resources than they have recovered.I challenge anybody who disagrees to check out the facts.
The Nchito brothers have been paid millions of dollars trying to recover $488 000.Does this honestly make any sense?
Chuchu is using Chiluba’s prosecution as a political mileage so that the world can know how serious he is in fighting corruption.
Michael #43, naiwe wine ulanunka bad. Umutima kwati ni Plagiarism.
# 69, it is a lawyer’s country for lawyers. From UNZA to govt to persecutors. 2011!
I can assure u that Chiluba will be “sick” again. He always gets sick when trial is about to start. And when he back from SA he starts making a lot of noise Mahtani etc.
Lol, is the legal expert clown for real? I thought only BaKamucheka in the old days used to issue stupid threats like that. Legal expert, my IP address is 164.188.0.160. I say track me. Anyway,sorry to #65, 67 & 68 but i just could not resist.
FINALLY JUSTICE IS SLOWLY SETTING IN. WHETHER IT HAS DELAYED OR NOT IS A MATTER FOR THE COURT, THE DEFENCE LAYWERS AND THE PROSECTUITION TEAM, BUT ONE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW, SO LET THIS BE A FRIENDLY WARNING TO SERVING IN PUBLIC OFFICE THAT WHAT YOU DO TODAY MUST BE CLAEN COZ SUMONE CAN QUESTION YOU 10 YEARS FROM NOW.
cage the plunderer and let him rot in jail…5 years is not evn enough for the chap…he needs 20yrs with hard labour..Chiluba may you rest in peace …Richrad Sakala survived and back to life …don’t know abt you.
#43 I am not a luapulan but your attached on the pipo from that province is too tribal and can attract a situation like kenya. BE SENSIBLE MAN DONT JUST YAP YAP FOR SAKE OF IT! BETTER STILL STOP MARIJUANA SMOKE, YOU FOOLISH MAN.
sorry the above is suppose to read …your attack on …..
Awe mwandi,am from luapula but the chap should be caged for the plunder of national resources.no mercy on him and his co-accused.let’s be fair and not tribal…he’s a stinking thief.
Gentlemen stop tribal blogging.Whether ur bamunyela mumenshi,Ba six koloko we are all the same.
Those of you wishing Dr FTJ chiluba to be locked up will find yourselves in jail and you will still be debating as to whether he should be in jail or not. Chiluba was not alone, the entire MMD admin from 1991 to present should be locked up or everyone should just shut up and move on.
Yaaaaawwwwwwnnnnnnnn! Scratch, scratch, scratch. Awe mwe!
Infact Levy is a product of Corruption.By the way why is the MMD still using the vehicles that were bought using the zamtrop account.Its true the whole system is corrupt and Chiluba is just being used as a scapegoat.
gentle men a president receives offers from in coming investors and chichi did receive money which thru ,the advice of the central intelligence officer(Mr X chungu),was deposited in Zamtrop.therefore he was just geting his money when ever he withdrew from zamtrop and there is no need to accuse him of abusing his office.Any way the lord is in control
The whole country is a crime scene. Levy benefited from crimes against humanity. Levy has not been managing our parastatals such that funds in their accounts are now being hosted by private banks instead of ZANACO. He sold shares of Zanaco to foreigners regardless of what the amajority of citizens wanted. All insurance policies for all parastatals are now handled by a private insurance firm, Professional insurance. This was done WITHOUT any tendering for this service. Levy has appeared to be protecting KCM even when the company has poisoned citizens via dangerously polluted water being let freely from its operations into the Kafue and public water works. Thus Levy will have to go in too.
This country just makes me sick. All the top brass just seem to be interested in making money. This is why the FTJ case is taking centuries!! Can we at least see some change and benefit as a nation on the verdict of FTJ.