The High Court in Blantyre is today expected to start hearing a case where former President Peter Mutharika is challenging a move taken by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to freeze his bank account over cement-gate scandal.
In August this year frozen some bank accounts of former president Peter Mutharika, his wife Getrude Mutharika, former Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) Deputy Director General Roza Mbilizi, and Mutharikaâs top security aide Norman Chisale in connection to the on-going investigations on the importation of duty free 400,000 bags of cement worth K5 billion from Zambia and Zimbabwe.
However, Mutharika denied any involvement and issued a press release, saying he had learnt with shock that MRA approved the clearance of duty free cement, using his TPIN.