Full Cashgate Report With Names Released To The Public: Now In Hands of Malawi Media

Malawi Ministry of Justice and Constitution Affairs has finally presented to the Media through Ministry of Information the Baker Tilly audit report which contains full names of the suspected cashgate looters.

Minister of Justice and Constitution Affairs Samuel Tembenu has finally submitted the Baker Tilly Cashgate report containing names of suspected individuals and companies who looted public coffers on Thursday evening in Lilongwe through the Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa.

The Justice Minister said, this report has full names of companies and individuals involved in cashgate and is "still intact in a PDF file format" as it was received, therefore nobody has manipulated any information from it.

He also indicated that the report has aided government recently in the investigations and identification of cashgate suspects but the report in itself does not set guilty of the people named therein and urged people to treat the document as "information of the result of Baker Tilly Investigation."

The minister further assured Malawians that more investigations into cashgate are underway with the support of the information from the report.

Tembenu also mentioned that audit investigations are underway on K92 Billion interim report and will cover period of 2009 to March 2013

He said government has contracted a local independent audit firm Price Waterhouse Coopers to investigate all government ministries and departments that remained unaudited during the previous audits.

Deputy Auditor General Sam Gomani on the K92 billion audit said, the K92 Billion should be treated as "Suspected Looting" because the truth from this report shall be known when results are out.

He added that the work into the audit is in progress and there is no interference and together with the contracted firm the auditor general's office is operating independently and the work is being done as planned by the office according to their ethics.

Upon receipt of the report the Minister of information Kondwani Nankhumwa said the report is now in the public domain as requested by many Malawians.

He committed that his office shall ensure that the document is made available.

The Minister however warned members of press that this document must be used as a public information and not for media prosecution.