Police in Lusaka have recovered K65, 330, 000 suspected to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained from a house in Lusaka’s new Kasama area.
The money was recovered in an operation conducted yesterday 17th September, 2021 after a tip off from members of the public.
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo said during the search, police discovered 30 travelling bags containing Zambian Kwacha notes.
Bank of Zambia was engaged and counted the money in the presence of caretakers as the alleged owner Faith Musonda is reported to have run away from the house.
A further search was conducted and the team discovered a safe containing USD57,350 which was later seized and handed over to Bank of Zambia for safe keeping and further investigations.
A manhunt has since been launched for the suspect.
This is PF for you. They are a bunch of criminals and thieves!
Just a tip of the iceberg.
Simply rebase the kwacha by cutting off one zero. And save yourself the stress
The entire PF administration was full of thieves we need to question and investigate all their members. We need to hold these people accountable.
Faith Musonda is one of Edgar Lungu’s wives. As youths we need a very intensified investigation as to who owns the money and how it was earned. If possible strip of immunity for Lungu and Investigate him.
Lusaka Times…you using internet download ed pictures……the US$ Banddles are way more than 53 000…those are millions
Umwana uwu shumfwa bala mwikata. Good and bad things all come to an end at some point in life.
These could be monies from drugs.
She works hard
Do u know that 3 high court judges freed Austin Liato whn he appealed his conviction by a magistrates court for not explaining the source of money he buried at his farm? Thank goodness for Mutembo Nchito. He appealed the stupid and controversial decision by Mwinde Siavwapa, Nicola Sharpe-Phiri and Farai Muchenga to the Supreme Court. That judgement remains the standard now. Faith Musonda and her boyfriend will not be saved by silence. If they fail to explain the source of the K65 million they’re both going to jail.
This is what annoys me and Stephen Kampyongo is still walking free…I hope this doesnt turn into Austin Liato where he got away with the crime lightly. In Zambia you can steal someones chicken and do 5 years but steal this much money and you will even walk away …I hope ACC dont mess up this case.
THe question is who got to the scene of the crime fast? I suspect there must have been 40 bags there
The ACC would have bungled it. They could even have stolen the money.
How do you know it’s stolen money….African mentality…but only big Bandit HH is allowed to steal together with Musokotwane…notice how no one is mentioning 48 houses anymore…all this is a destruction because HH knows that he will be implicated together with Musokotwane
Can someone if this was LAZY LUNGU’s mistress?
Saulosi – Where have you seen someone keeping that much money in a house? Only drug dealers and thieves do that…you have no shame at all.
This is a tip of iceberg.Imagine what they must have taken in ten years? If a junior
Lady has so much what more the seniors
And ministers.No wonder they did not want
To leave as they wanted to continue this
Lavish style when ordinary Zambians can’t
Afford ameal.
Don’t believe everything you read and only believe in half of what you see….those images are downloaded from the internet….and the problem in Zambia even Police don’t tell the truth…most of them still want to keep their jobs now they’re putting up shows just like ACC……just to blind baby President big Bandit HH
No excitement here as this is just a tip of the iceberg, there is much more than this money hidden every where. What has been discovered is too little, just imagine 10 years of looting, that is why the PF chaps tried to do all they could to remain in power. There is a lot of loot out there, unfortunately a lot of it will never ever be discovered, what with our weak investigative agencies who are even announcing investigations before they are complete and in some cases are the accomplices
Lusambo’s property should be the next to be searched.
If a regular person like this can hold this much money. What about people with more seniority in PF. Please ACC, DEC, FIC engage interpol and track every single kwacha. Zambians need that money for economic recovery and growth. I would urge President HH to conduct a special audit of the ministry of finance and bank Zambia. Mandate all financial institutions to provide all transactions above a certain threshold.
I don’t have even a K5 to buy my favourite Fanta today but here is somebody hoarding a whooping K65 million in her house! How can the world be so cruel! The perpetrator/perpetrators of this heinous crime must face the full wrath of the law if found wanting.
It reminds me of Austin Liato
No surprise there… the police are too slow. There were many videos doing the rounds on social media few weeks ago showing PF cadres with massive stacks of money scattered everywhere in bedrooms and this is when they recover the little?
And BOZ were sleeping giving some sorry excuses why there was a shortage of bank notes in circulation, blaming fertilizer buying… really s!lly. If we had competent law enforcement agencies, they would have recovered lots of stolen property and money by now… follow the trail of money; get some search warranties and investigate banks and examine their books.
Yes when you steal these amounts you can buy your freedom easily. Thats why people who steal big cash are never put behind bars that easily because they can always buy their freedom. If you steal a chicken you go in for 5 years because you are too poor to buy your freedom from anyone. To answer some questions above. All the same let these cadres explain the source of all this cash. Am sure it was meant for campaigns and this was change from the campaign cash stolen from the government buy high profile PF thugs mascarading as Ministers, PSs and the like not to forget about the Governor himself. PF the worst party Zambia has ever seen.
Just thinking……….why should this story hit the media headlines before the facts are fully established?
Guenuine money should have been bank to bank otherwise that is printed money (black dollar)
Now the owner’s lawyers have taken up the case with ZP claiming the money is from emerald sales. Well let’s wait and see.
Where in this damn world do u get paid in cash at an auction?
That’s right , who goes to an auction with suit cases of cash ???
Doesnt such a hefty sum as K65 million stashed away outside a bank affect the inflation rate and the rate of the currency? The Minister of Finance should issue a statement and so should the Police IG
Normally if it’s a genuine seizer you see actual images of the crime scene and actual images of items seized…not downloading images from from the internet…UPND is shaking now because of the 48 houses story so expect alot of gymnastics trying to destruct Zambians…that seizer if fake…no facts and even Tarino Orange has cast some doubts…”who arrived at the crime scene first”….. Ladies and gentlemen brace yourselves for more drama and lies for the next 5 years…..Zambians made a very big mistake voting for HH
This is nothing 35 billion dollars more still to be recovered
Ati give her back her money because she suffered for it. She endured long hours of yaku mbuyo to earn that money. Ba PF sure, ninyele yamutundu bwanji? So PF horny is worth millions!
There is no doubt whatsoever that those huge sums are proceeds of crime,,,, these villains especially from the health sector who were and still believe are stinking and filthy rich. 65billion old currency ‘immense’,,,, money that not even an aerospace engineer will take as a retirement package… Something was very wrong in the previous regime imagine a worthless councillor from a low division could afford to buy the entire bank and its assets including the 4ply toilet paper.
This thinking that only thieves can have money should end. lets work hard and make money, it will spill over to the nation in taxes. Lets promote hard work
We told you we had thieves in govt, wait till next week and then you will know what you were supporting and PF supporters
One thing I can tell you Saulosi is that your umbilical cord connecting you to your thieving pf friends is slowly but surely being severed before your eyes. No matter how much you’ll want to yap, the President and the system are focused and have their eyes on the ball. Just watch the episodes as they are played.
The veils are slowly being removed and in no time we will know all that was happening under pf. Now we can guess, and perhaps rightly so, why somebody would say K2000000 is small change, why someone would line up several vehicles at a filling station and have them filled up to the brim at his expense. I don’t think anyone, except one Saulosi who sounds like he’s just been swimming in a sewage dam somewhere, would be amused.
Much as we want to find people involved in corruption or those that have amassed money unquestionably, I beg to disagree with the photo depicting the dollars found. That was Photoshopped to say the least because just the first bunch of $100 dollar bills would have amounted to $50’000. The money depicted is probably close to half a million dollars. Please, you can lie to Zambians that have not seen $50’000 cash, but you can’t lie to someone who is based in the USA and has handled that kind of money before. Learn to be truthful in your reporting.
Poor man’s mentality….to them only thieves can have such amount of money……
Corruption scandals…. – The police jumped the gun on this one and rushed to the scene..they should have put that property under surveillance and tapped the lady’s phones see where this leads to. We need to get FBI or Scotland Yard to come and train our officers especially in white collar crime.
That lady is politically connected with the previous regime … I just connected a few pieces having seen her with a top govt official sometimes in the past..
Now i smell the rotten fish of where Lungu was getting all that “empowerment funds” for bicycles and other stuff.
Search Lusambo’s house. He was walking around with cash openly. I don’t think that he used all the money given to him to bribe voters
@Saulosi kaeach colour you just corrupt
I tend to agree at @42 Tarino Orange. But in Zambia you can’t keep something like this under the radar with incompetent, corrupt individuals and moles embedded within the police. After duty they would tip her or her bosses. Our security surveillance systems are archaic or non existent.
Here’s hoping she would disclose the big fish by turning into state witness.
I agree Bally needs to request the services of Scotland and FBI to provide professional assistance to recover stolen resources. They also need to link up with International banks in Switzerland and Caribbean.
#42 Tarino Orange. And that’s how many cases may be spoiled…. excitement to please the new bosses without professional approach.
Me with my bachelor’s & master’s degrees,.from unza worked for 29 years in govt. I have never seen a 1meter. Ka Evelyn hone pillows 65meters. Ahmmmn yashani. Is that Pamela + Faith =PF
17 September, 2021
Inspector General of Police,
Zambia Police Headquarters,
Independence Avenue
Lusaka.
Dear Sir,
RE: DEMAND FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ZMW 65 330 000.00 AND USD$ 57 350.00
We have been retained by Faith Musonda, kindly therefore note our interest .
Our client informs us that sometime on 17 September, 2021, your officers purporting to act on a tip off from members of the public unlawfully broke into our clients house plot F/206, New Kasama, Lusaka . Our client informs us that she is avest to the party who provided the information malifide but she will address that at an appropriate forum.
Firstly, our client wishes to clarify on your baseless assertion that she is currently on the run. She informs us that on the 9 of September, 2021, she left Zambia for…
Our preliminary investigations show that there is no MINING business registered under the name FAITH MUSONDA at Zambia Revenue Authority nor at PACRA. Now you can guess where the money is coming from.
this our country