The Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has assured the business community and the public that cases of smuggling will come to a halt very soon as the Authority is in the process of procuring drones to deal with the problem.
The sentiments were made recently by Mr. John Biziwick, the Commissioner General of MRA, when Chibuku Products Limited had an audience with him.
The Commissioner General hinted that seeing that smugglers were always elusive when illegally importing goods into the country, MRA had adopted a new technology to counter their moves. âWith this new and modern technology in place, I assure you that MRA will be able to see and detect smugglers and conveyance wherever they are and catch them,â he added.
Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) is still hoarding decorated personnel within its ranks who orchestrated the illegal recruitment of officers busted by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and others practising active partisan politics,
Nyasa Times can reveal.
MRA commissioner general Bizwick: Senior officers involved in illegal recruitment bask in the public limelight
In our follow-up on the matters, MRA management and board of directors clearly admitted to have grown a cold feet regarding implementing ACB’s directive about the people behind the recruitment mess at the tax collector.
Among others, the then ACB director general, Reyneck Matemba, ordered MRA management to discipline officials who replaced names of bonafide candidates who were successful in interviews with their siblings, cousins and relatives.
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HRDC: They have become a mercenary institution
Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has been caught pants down lying to Malawians and Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on serious allegations levelled against Salima Sugar Company. (SSC).
According to Malawi Voice independent investigation and concrete report from the company, HRDC did a half-baked job with ill-motives better known for themselves.
This follows a letter, HRDC had written ACB Reyneck Matemba and Malawi Revenue Authority Commissioner General John Biziwick to probe allegations of corruption, money laundering and tax evasion at the company.
In a letter dated January 19 2021, HRDC says, during the Democratic Progressive Party regime, the Malawi Government which holds 40 percent shareholding in SSC guaranteed a loan of $18 million from Export Development Fund and another loan worth $6 million from CDH Investment Bank.