The Sattar investigation started as a joint enterprise between Malawi's crusading Anti-Corruption Bureau Director Martha Chizuma and the International Corruption Unit of the UK's National Crime Agency which first arrested him in October 2021 and raided his premises in the English city of Leicester while the ACB raided his premises in Malawi...
With the end of ACB director Martha Chizuma's term of office in May all hope of successful corruption prosecutions has been abandoned...
President Chakwera on the other hand has proclaimed ‘I didn't know' to abused Covid-19 funds the arrest of then Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director Martha Chizuma and other scandals and he is slow to act when his closest officials are accused (AC Vol 65 No 13 No plaudits for anti-corruption supremo)...
Many Malawians feel the book has now closed on the campaign by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) director Martha Chizuma to bring dozens of Malawian and foreign businesspeople and politicians to justice for wholesale bribery mostly procurement fraud...
After further electoral and political tumult Chilima found himself once more in government but he was arrested by the highly active Anti-Corruption Bureau under Martha Chizuma in November 2022 in connection with a US$150 million bribery case (AC Vol 63 No 12 Bribery accusations engulf government)...
The decision marks the end of the turbulent four-year tenure of ACB Director-General Martha Chizuma who leaves the agency this month...
ACB director Martha Chizuma came under extraordinary pressure to drop the investigation from members of Chakwera's government and was herself arrested on what turned out to be bogus charges (AC Vol 63 No 3 Fraud furore engulfs Chakwera)...
ACB Director-General Martha Chizuma's investigations of bribery and procurement riled the establishment and saw her arrested on a trumped-up charge and then improperly removed from office before she was reinstated (AC Vol 64 No 4 Anti-corruption furore goes global)...
Delay in Malawi was caused by the efforts of government law officers to unseat ACB director Martha Chizuma (AC Vol 64 No 4 Anti-corruption furore goes global)...
The government has launched a war of attrition against the courts as it tries to stop Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Director-General Martha Chizuma from investigating top politicians and their links to a British-Malawian businessman...
• The day after Africa Confidential published this article the Director of Public Prosecutions withdrew all criminal charges against Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma...
Donors signal their outrage A delegation of western ambassadors held a three-hour meeting with President Lazarus Chakwera at State House on 3 February over the government's obsession with stopping Anti-Corruption Bureau boss Martha Chizuma from investigating high-level corruption...
One of the NCA's arguments in support of the travel ban was its suspicion that Sattar is helping fund demonstrators in Malawi protesting against ACB director Martha Chizuma against whom they have threatened violence...
