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“For the interest of justice and restitution, we shall pursue this and all financial crimes to logical conclusion.”
Malawi is a crime scene that a day hardly passes without lacking a stomach-turning story of a grand- white collar theft especially from those working in the public service and it has been established that the state-owned National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) is a criminal syndicate.
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NOCMA, a government of Malawi wholly-owned company has yet again been embroidered in theft of two million litres of diesel worth about K3, billion has been stolen between January 2018 and January 2019 with public officer working at the oil company sharing the loot.
Hearing of a case involving former Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Collins Magalasi and three others has resumed this morning in Lilongwe before Chief Resident Magistrate Patrick Chirwa.
Magalasi alongside Mera`s spokesperson Patrick Maulidi, Procurement Officer Bright Mbewe and the CEO`s Business Associate Dorothy Shonga popularly known as Cash Madam were charged with 16 counts which include fraud, money laundering, making false statement and knowingly using falsified documents with intent to deceive.
However, Shonga has asked the court to give her three to four weeks to engage another lawyer arguing she does not want to be represented by her former counsel anymore.
Mera spokesperson Fitina Khonje disclosed this at a media briefing currently underway in Blantyre.
Mera has also maintained prices for petrol, diesel and paraffin at K899.20 per litre, K898 per litre, K719.60 per litre respectively.
This is despite petrol landed costs increasing by 9.8 percent; hence, qualifying for price adjustments.
The authority has also maintained Jet A fuel price at K721. 25 per litre and K667. 82 per litre at Kamuzu International Airport and Chileka International Airport, respectively.
Mera has, however, hiked the price of liquid petroleum gas by 5.79 percent from K1 952 to K2 065.
The price adjustments are effective this midnight.
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