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| DPP wants special funds for fraud cases |
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Gedion Munthali, 10 May 2005
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Director of Public Prosecutions Ishmael Wadi has requested extra funding from Treasury to prosecute over 50 fraud cases.
He said the special funding had been sought because his allocation had been depleted and the cases were serious that further delay would not be in the interest of justice.
“The requisition will be submitted to Treasury this afternoon at 3 o’clock,” he disclosed.
He could not say how much he had asked for, saying the amounts were on case-by-case basis.
“Once we get the response from Treasury, then we will know when respective cases will go to court,” said Wadi.
Treasury only allocated K27 million out of the K73 million he requested in the budget.
The chief public prosecutor said among the fraud charges are those against former officials of the Football Association of Malawi (Fam) who were implicated in financial impropriety at the governing body.
“They will face fraud charges,” said Wadi Monday after deciding last week that the officials will be arrested and prosecuted, but was yet to come up with the charges.
Former association president John Zingale, treasurer Hubert Mfune, and executive member George Kaudza Masina were implicated in alleged abuse of financial resources by report from the Auditor General.
Among other things Zingale was accused in the report of failing to account for US$7,673 which he got from government for the Flames trip to Nigeria in June 2003.
The report also accused Mfune of not accounting for US$6,500 which he took to Durban to purchase a reconditioned bus for Fam.
Kaudza Masina was accused of fraudulently claiming external travel allowance amounting to about $935 when he led a Flames delegation to Angola in July, 2003.
Reports of financial mismanagement resulted in Zingale stepping down.
Masina and Mfune were not allowed to contest in elections that followed due to the scandal.
Government forced them to step aside and not take part in the elections.
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