Cashgate: Soko to Face His Fate on Thursday Next Week

Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Lilongwe is expected on Thursday next week 13^th November to pass sentence to a Deputy Director of Youth for Malawi Congress Party (MCP) Wyson Zinyemba Soko whose crime is connected to cashgate.

Soko is a third cashgate convict after conviction and sentencing of former Principle Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Tressa Namathanga Senzani to three years and nine month imprisonment. And Patrick Victor Sithole a former Accounts Assistant on Tuesday this week was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment both on cashgate cases.

Cashgate: Sithole Gets 9 Years Imprisonment

Plot To Plunder govt coffers

The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court has on Tuesday sentenced one of the cashgate convict Victor Patrick Sithole to nine years imprisonment for being found guilty of money laundering, found in possession of foreign currency illegally and found in possession of property suspected to have been stolen.

Sithole was the first person to be arrested in September last year in connection to cashgate when police impounded in his house and found him with foreign currency, of South African Rand's R122, 200 and, US$31, 000, and was also found with MK112 Million cash.

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.