Yet the government can't blame the pandemic and the global economy for corruption scandals such as the 13 trucks of maize that went missing from national grain agency the payment of US$200 000 to a butchery in London to buy fertiliser or the issuing of a $250m sovereign guarantee to a dubious Romanian company linked to the main character in the Cashgate scandal Paul Mphwiyo now a fugitive from justice after skipping bail on his heavily delayed trial (AC Vol 64 No 16 You can run and you can hide)...
Paul Mphwiyo escaped in 2023 when the court was about to deliver its ruling in his Cashgate case and he is believed to be in South Africa...
Former National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo whose non-fatal shooting in 2013 blew the lid off the Cashgate scandal of wholesale plunder of the public purse by politicians is reported to have left the country...
When Finance Ministry budget director Paul Mphwiyo unexpectedly survived being shot in the head and left for dead eight years ago blowing apart the heist of US$32 million of public funds by politicians and civil servants nobody expected so little follow-up...
The Tonse Alliance has attracted some controversy because the former national budget director Paul Mphwiyo whose shooting sparked the Cashgate scandal in 2013 attended their presentation of candidates along with construction magnate Simbi Phiri...
Judge Mwaungulu rejected the bail application of Kasambara's accomplices who shot former budget director at the Finance Ministry Paul Mphwiyo after he had fallen out with Kasambara over dividing the spoils of the Cashgate corruption scandal (AC Vol 57 No 18 Kasambara incarcerated)...
Banda has been implicated in the 2013-14 Cashgate scandal that rocked Malawi and led to the prosecution of four senior public servants: Oswald Lutepo Leonard Kalonga Treza Namathanga Senzani (now deceased) and Paul Mphwiyo a former director of budget at the Ministry of Finance (AC Vol 57 No 2 Banda on the run & Vol 57 No 16 Unending flow of Cashgate)...
Only the case of former Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo and 15 others has continued to attract interest...
The trial of a former Justice Minister and Attorney General came to a dramatic end on 24 August as the High Court in Lilongwe sentenced Ralph Kasambara to 13 years for conspiracy to murder Paul Mphwiyo the former Budget Director at the Finance Ministry...
Kasambara and two others business associate Pika Manondo and former soldier Macdonald Kumwembe were convicted of conspiracy to murder National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo on 13 September 2013 and the last two of attempted murder (AC Vol 54 No 21 Shooting triggers reshuffle)...
On 22 August he is expected to be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison for conspiring to murder his friend-turned-nemesis Paul Mphwiyo...
A succession of witnesses and defendants in trials for money-laundering and theft of government funds as well in the case of the attempted murder of ex-National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo named her as the central figure in the US$60 million fraud (AC Vol 54 No 21 Shooting triggers reshuffle)...