{"id":11936,"date":"2015-11-12T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2015-11-12T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:38:30","slug":"cashgate-suspect-faults-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/11\/12\/cashgate-suspect-faults-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashgate suspect faults judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former government accountant, Maxwell Namata – convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the offence of money laundering – has faulted the High Court Judge who presided over his case, over his conviction and subsequent sentencing, in the absence of sound evidence.<\/p>\n

The convict’s counsel Michael Chipeta told a panel of three Supreme Court of Appeal judges hearing the case in Blantyre on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He said Justice Anabel Mtilamanja erred in convicting and sentencing the convict without proving beyond reasonable doubt that the offence of money laundering was indeed committed.<\/p>\n

Chipeta argues that the state failed to prove the crucial elements of the offence of theft.<\/p>\n

However in response to the submissions, Director of Public Prosecution Mary Kachale described Chipeta\u2019s arguments as technical justice.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the morning, David Lameck counsel for Luka Kasamba – the second appellant – began by telling the court that his client has withdrawn the appeal based on his constitution right.<\/p>\n

The court accepted the withdrawal but faulted Lameck for ambushing the court with the move.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the court has given both the state and defence 21 days to submit their technical arguments in writing, within 21 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former government accountant, Maxwell Namata – convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for the offence of money laundering – has faulted the High Court Judge who presided over his case, over his conviction and subsequent sentencing, in the absence of sound evidence. The convict’s counsel Michael Chipeta told a panel of three Supreme Court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}