One of the few to see the inside of a jail cell was Oswald Lutepo the former treasurer of the PP who is still serving his 11-year sentence after being convicted of stealing K4...
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)...
When this source of funds dried up he came up with the Cashgate fraud with the help of Oswald Lutepo and Mphwiyo...
Of the leaders of the fraud only Oswald Lutepo the PP's one-time director of procurement and logistics is behind bars with an eleven-year term for stealing K4...
On 4 September Oswald Lutepo was convicted of stealing 4...
The PP's former Director of Logistics and major fund-raiser Oswald Lutepo pleaded guilty to charges of money-laundering and theft of 4...
The former People's Party (PP) official charged with fraudulently obtaining the largest amount of any Cashgate defendant Oswald Lutepo said in a radio interview that he had taken the money that he dishonestly obtained to State House for the then President...
Former Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara is on trial for the attempted murder of Mphwiyo and PP finance supremo Oswald Lutepo is charged with receiving the largest amount from the scam...
Last November Oswald Lutepo former Director of Logistics for the PP and one of its major funders was arrested...
The charging of PP official Oswald Lutepo is specially worrying for Banda...