{"id":62809,"date":"2018-03-23T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=62809"},"modified":"2018-03-23T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T11:40:15","slug":"supreme-court-acquits-namata-cashgate-convict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/supreme-court-acquits-namata-cashgate-convict\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court acquits Namata, cashgate convict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Appeal has acquitted cashgate convict, Maxwell Namata, because there was no proof of any contract between his company and government among other reasons.<br \/>\n\u201cThe state witness said he was not aware of a contract between Ministry of Tourism and Cross Marketing [Namata\u2019s company],\u201d Justice Lovemore Chikopa said in the ruling flanked fellow justices Anthony Kamanga, and Rezine Nzikamanda.<br \/>\nNamata was earlier convicted and sentenced by the High Court in February 2015 to consecutive custodial sentences of three years and five years for theft and money laundering respectively<br \/>\nBut the Supreme Court yesterday unanimously agreed that the\u00a0 High Court convicted Namata wrongly because the state failed to prove theft.<br \/>\n\u201cTo prove theft, there must be lack of consent, deception or misappropriation of facts but in this case, the state didn\u2019t prove lack of consent, deception or misappropriation of facts when it departed with the cheque,\u201d the ruling read in part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Appeal has acquitted cashgate convict, Maxwell Namata, because there was no proof of any contract between his company and government among other reasons. \u201cThe state witness said he was not aware of a contract between Ministry of Tourism and Cross Marketing [Namata\u2019s company],\u201d Justice Lovemore Chikopa said in the ruling flanked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62809","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=62809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62810,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62809\/revisions\/62810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}