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Vol 64 No 22

Published 2nd November 2023


Malawi

UK cops in court

Government law officers have been so slow to summon witnesses to appear in trials brought by the Anti-Corruption Bureau that witnesses from Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) appeared in court without formal invitations. Attorney-General Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda did not grant the ACB's request to invite the UK's formal cooperation in the case against British/Malawian businessman Zuneth Sattar, who was first arrested in the UK, a court heard. The ACB arranged for the British officers to come anyway. It was Nyirenda who issued Sattar with a much-criticised and later withdrawn amnesty.

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