As Chizuma went on leave prior to the end of her contract term the Director of Public Prosecutions discontinued the prosecution of Vice-President Saulos Chilima – just four weeks before he died – on charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from the British businessman Zuneth Sattar in what many took as a symbolic end to the anti-corruption offensive...

VP's death rocks Chakwera's poll chances The practical certainty that the death of Vice-President Saulos Chilima in the 10 June crash of a Malawi Air Force Dornier 228 twin-engined aircraft was not deliberate cuts little ice among the public 74% of whom tell pollsters they believe in witchcraft according to analysts in Lilongwe...

The corruption case against Malawi's Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been abandoned on the order of President Lazarus Chakwera...

Sattar was accused of bribing high officials including Vice-President Saulos Chilima who was arrested by the ACB to win over-priced procurement contracts some of them dating back over 10 years...

'The NCA is dropping nothing and the ruling in Malawi gives the two institutions impetus to pursue the cases to the end ' said an ACB lawyer who said the cases had both 'political and governance implications' especially in Malawi as Vice-President Saulos Chilima has already been charged (AC Vol 63 No 3 Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera)...

Those arrested included Vice-President Saulos Chilima (AC Vol 63 No 12 Bribery accusations engulf government)...

President Lazarus Chakwera's administration is mired in allegations of corruption and nepotism while his Vice-President Saulos Chilima whose executive powers were removed after he was charged with accepting bribes has all but cut relations with him...

Chizuma arrested Vice-President Saulos Chilima leader of the United Transformation Movement which is in coalition with Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in the Tonse Alliance on 25 November in connection with the Sattar investigation...

Chakwera was accompanying his Vice-President Saulos Chilima to a charity golf tournament the picture symbolising for many Malawians the gulf between them and their leaders...

• UPDATE: Two days after this report was published online the Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Vice-President Saulos Chilima on charges of receiving $280 000 and other items from Zuneth Sattar...

The President does not have the power to sack one of those named Vice-President Saulos Chilima...