The case of businessman Zuneth Sattar who is being jointly investigated by Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) for alleged bribery over 10 years is ratcheting up pressure on President Lazarus Chakwera's beleaguered government in Lilongwe...
He is also in danger from the Zuneth Sattar case (AC Vol 63 No 3 Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera & Vol 63 No 12 Bribery accusations engulf government)...
Opposing a bail application by Malawi-born British businessman Zuneth Sattar lawyers for the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed in a London court that its covert surveillance of Sattar 'demonstrate[s] Sattar's influence over and corruption of' many of the most senior members of Chakwera's government...
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These protests were triggered in part by the deepening scandal around Lands Minister Msukwa who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on 30 December after it detained Ashok Nair a Malawian associate of Zuneth Sattar a British businessman...
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The President is under massive pressure to sack Lands Minister Kezzie Msukwa who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on 30 December after it detained Ashok Nair a Malawian associate of Zuneth Sattar a Leicester-based UK businessman...
It was into 'allegations that Zuneth Sattar and his agent Ashok Kumar Sreedharan aka Ashok Nair have been giving bribes to Politically Exposed Persons with the aim of influencing various Malawi government departments to corruptly award contracts to companies belonging to Zuneth Sattar… The investigations have so far established that in relation to the mentioned land matters Hon Kezzie Msukwa on four occasions corruptly used his official powers...
On 5 October Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested the owner of the businesses Zuneth Sattar in the UK while the ACB simultaneously detained Ashok Nair in Malawi...