The Anti-Corruption Bureau has warned that it will cross appeal if lawyers for ex-Petroleum Control Commission (PCC) general manager Denis Kambalame appeal against the conviction and the six year sentence that the High Court handed him a fortnight ago.
Bureau spokesperson Egrita Ndala said that the ACB does not intend to appeal on the two counts but if the defence appeals against the conviction and sentence, will have no choice but to appeal.
“In other words, the bureau will defend the appeal and also appeal on the two counts where Kambalame was acquitted,” Ndala.
Kambalame, was convicted by the High Court after being found guilty on the third count of having received K2.5 million ($25,000) as gratification from Hamble Energy between October 1997 and July 1998.
In the other two counts, Kambalame was alleged to have accepted gratification for himself amounting to US$1,2 million from Europetrol Limited for awarding contracts for the supply of fuel and also receiving gratification amounting to US$ 166,183.60 from Mohammed Munaf Nadhi directors of Europetrol limited.
The other two counts, of corruptly accepting $1.1 million after awarding contracts to Europetrol and another count of accepting $166,183.60 from Europetrol again.
On Wednesday last week Kambalame’s lawyers Tamando Chokhotho said that they had filed a notice of appeal in the High Court against the conviction and the six year sentence.
Meanwhile, the Bureau has said it will be applying to get K2.5 million in an offshore accounts that former Petroleum Control Commission (PCC) general stashed away.
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