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$50m corruption trial rocks Lilongwe

Zuneth Sattar goes to court in London accused of bribing Malawi’s top officials and politicians but neither they nor he face prosecution back home

Preliminary hearings have begun in the trial for bribery of Malawian/British business owner and Malawi government contractor Zuneth Sattar, 44, who is charged with 18 counts of bribing officials from the Vice-President to the bosses of the army, the police, public procurement, and state prosecutors to win contracts worth over US$50 million between December 2020 and September 2021.

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