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...
It said the recordings 'demonstrate[s] Sattar's influence over and corruption of a number of senior public figures in Malawi including the Malawian Vice-President Saulos Chilima the Chief of Staff Prince Harvey Kapondamgaga the Malawian Solicitor General Reyneck Matemba the Inspector General of Malawi Police Service George Kainja a Malawi Police Service Lawyer: Mwambi Kaluba and the Chairperson of the PPDA [Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Authority] John Suzi Banda...
Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima's alliance was always fragile as they represent an older establishment on one side and a younger cohort eager for radical change on the other...
Nor has comment been spared on a 'deafening silence' from ex-President Peter Mutharika's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-President Joyce Banda's People's Party (PP) Atupele Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) and even Vice-President Saulosi Chilima's UTM...
The MCP's main partner in the ruling Tonse Alliance Vice-President Saulosi Chilima's United Transformation Movement (UTM) also suddenly acquired brand-new vehicles...
