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Three arrested over K550 million land fraud

Oct 25, 2019 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

Police in Lilongwe have arrested three people who created a lands office and fraudulently sold six plots for K550 million. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Lands and Urban Development Joseph Mwandidya identified the three… ...

Malawi Government Continues Investigation into Illegal Forex Externalisation

Oct 21, 2019 Sibu M. Mokoena 0 &

At the Financial Services Lawyers conference held at Nkopola Lodge in Mangochi on September 23, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), Dr. Grant Kabango, revealed that several multinational companies are now… ...

Airtel Malawi accused of scamming Malawians

Aug 20, 2019 Russell Kondowe 0 &

Malawians have accused mobile service provider, Airtel Malawi, of stealing from subscribers. People in the country say Airtel has let their information fall into the hands of thieves who are scamming the companys customers.… ...

Govt says SMS fraudsters can be tracked down

Jun 28, 2019 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

The Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare says the police can easily track down scammers who use text messages to steal from people. The ministry said this in a statement on Thursday in… ...

Two arrested for swindling investors out of K130 million

Jun 27, 2019 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Malawi Police Service (MPS) has arrested two people for stealing K130 million from several individuals using a fraudulent investment scheme. Fiscal and Fraud Section of the Malawi Police Service have arrested Chipo Upindi Hunga aged… ...

Reserve Bank of Malawi manager, businessperson arrested for stealing K354m

Jun 18, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 0 &

A Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) manager, a businessperson and two other RBM employees have been arrested for stealing K354 million at the Central Bank. Police have arrested the bank’s manager for operations Charles Mchakulu,… ...

Audit uncovers K444m fraud at Malawi’s Foreign Affairs Ministry

Mar 25, 2019 Malawi24 Reporter 1 &

A probe into embassies and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation covering the 2017/18 financial year has revealed that workers colluded to steal K444 million from government. The audit conducted by National Audit Office… ...

Prophet Bushiri’s private jet seized: Major One running out of time

Feb 17, 2019 Sibu M. Mokoena 2 &

Mene, mene, tekel! The writing is now on the wall for controversial Prophet Shepherd Bushiri who is racing against time in South Africa where his private jet has been seized. The televangelist who is also answering alleged… ...

Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Prophetess Mary Bushiri

Breaking: Shepherd Bushiri arrested in South Africa

Feb 01, 2019 Lindiwe Sambalikagwa 0 &

News from the Rainbow nation indicates that self-acclaimed seer of the future Shepherd Bushiri has been arrested. According to his communication director, Ephraim Nyondo, Bushiri has been arrested for fraud and money laundering. Bushiri was… ...

K217 million cashgate at Roads Authority

Jun 06, 2016 Malawi24 Reporter 19 &

A 217 million a cashgate style fraud involving the top boss at the Roads Authority has been exposed. According to reports, the authority’s chief executive officer Trevor Hiwa awarded his own construction company a K217… ...

Fraud: Rumphi council uses CDF to settle loans

Nov 21, 2015 Thula Chisamba 10 &

At a time when district councils in the Malawi continue to get underfunded, reports indicate that Rumphi district council has used constituency development funds (CDF) amounting to about 4.2 million Kwacha to pay for a… ...

Police officers lose jobs over Bushiri’s ‘triumphant entry’ into Mzuzu

Sep 29, 2015 Aubrey Makina 595 &

It was designed to rival the entry of Christ into Jerusalem, only his entry was supposed to be a step higher with a convoy, security and a police band so as to shut down all… ...

‘We are using witchcraft, Satanism and magic’ – confesses Prophet Kautsire

Sep 29, 2015 Aubrey Makina 545 &

…some ‘Prophets’ are stopped from having sex with their wives, they have sex with a snake Coming in the wake of self-acclaimed Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's stunts that he has called miracles, Malawian Prophet Trevor Kautsire… ...

Joyce Banda started Cashgate to fund PP campaign – Mutharika

Sep 29, 2015 Aubrey Makina 70 &

…tells Kasambara there are no sacred cows Former President Joyce Banda who has been implicated in the looting of state funds by none other than the chief cashgate convict Oswald Lutepo has been fingered in… ...

Prophet Bushiri hires murder suspect Ralph Kasambara

Sep 22, 2015 Malawi24 Reporter 239 &

…threatens critics with death Rocked with Ipadgate which has thrown his dubious ministry into further disrepute, Malawi’s controversial self-acclaimed Prophet Mr. Shepherd Bushiri has hired murder suspect Ralph Kasambara as his lawyer. Kasambara is currently… ...