Over two years after his appointment as Malawi\u2019s first-ever Director of Assets Declarations, Christopher Tukula faces prosecution for his alleged witness interference in Cashgate cases.<\/p>\n
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) instituted a probe on Tukula and was subsequently arrested on the same charges in 2014.<\/p>\n
In a written response to our inquiry on Thursday, the bureau\u2019s Senior Public Relations Officer Egrita Ndala disclosed that investigations of the matter have been finalised.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Anti-Corruption Bureau was investigating Mr. Christopher Tukula for interfering with investigations in the ongoing Cashgate cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Bureau had established that Mr. Tukula was interfering with potential witnesses. This happened when he was in private law practice,\u201d said Ndala.<\/p>\n
Asked on the way forward, Ndala said the ant-graft body is waiting for directions on how to proceed with the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation was concluded and the case is awaiting consent from the Director of Public Prosecutions,\u201d Ndala said.<\/p>\n
Tukula in 2014 was allegedly feeding the witnesses information on how to respond to some of the probing questions.<\/p>\n
The ACB had to move the Mzuzu Magistrate\u2019s Court to vacate an injunction Tukula obtained through his lawyer, Raphael Kasambara, to make an arrest in September 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over two years after his appointment as Malawi\u2019s first-ever Director of Assets Declarations, Christopher Tukula faces prosecution for his alleged witness interference in Cashgate cases. Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) instituted a probe on Tukula and was subsequently arrested on the same charges in 2014. In a written response to our inquiry on Thursday, the bureau\u2019s Senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833","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=33833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33835,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33833\/revisions\/33835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}