Ministry of Health Registry Clerk of Lukulu District in Western Province has been convicted to five years imprisonment with hard labour for money laundering involving over K73, 000.
Mbangu Katutu, 39, a Registry Clerk under the Ministry of Health in Lukulu District was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission in May 2016 for abuse of authority of office, theft, money laundering and theft by public servant contrary to the Laws of Zambia.
Particulars of the offence were that Katutu Mbangu, a Registry Clerk and working as a Payroll End User at Lukulu District Medical Office, on dates unknown but between 1st December, 2014 and 31st March, 2016 whilst acting together with other persons unknown did without lawful authority introduce his wife Rachael Nakweti Simasiku on the Government payroll as a Registered Nurse when she was not actually an employee of the Ministry of Health.
This resulted in Government losing K73, 839.11 as salary paid to her.
Mbangu has since been convicted to 3 years, 2 years and 5 years respectively on charges of theft by public servant, fraudulent false accounting and money laundering.
He will, however, serve for 5 years to run concurrently.
And the Commission through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit has arrested a businessman of Chipata District for money laundering involving K200, 000.
Kelvin Mwanza, 30, a businessman of Chimwemwe Compound in Chipata District has been arrested for theft and money laundering involving K200, 000 contrary to the Laws of Zambia.
Particulars of the offence are that Mwanza jointly and whilst acting together with other persons unknown on dates unknown but between 1stFebruary, 2016 and 15th March, 2016 did steal K200, 000 by unlawfully and fraudulently transferring the said money from an account holder under a named bank to his own domiciled at the same bank.
Mwanza later withdrew this money over the counter and also via Automated Teller Machines (ATMs).
He used part of the money to purchase a plot in Chipata’s Mphando area.
Mwanza is currently in custody and will appear in the Chipata Magistrate Courts on 27th July, 2016.
Meanwhile Lungu delusional as always talking about the provision of quality health care by the number of health posts being built across the country. This was during a ceremony at the Muyombe hospital construction site where he donated an ambulance trying to bribe people. And here we have the full blown scandal of a Ministry of Health official involved with money laundering. People feel they can get away with everything under sleeping Lungu. His ministers are recorded in money schemes yet he turns a blind eye. The $33M scandal by the Ministry of Health he did not reprimand anyone and the reason people are stealing left right and center. Why? A lack of vision and leadership!