Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Corruption: Corruption in Malawi

Odious Debts has an article detailing how the Malawi government has lost a fortune in the last five years due to high-level corrupt practices that involved top government and party officials.

The Chronicle has seen a document which details summary cases of persons and amounts, saved or lost, status, and the remarks of 21 high-level corruption cases.

The article also reports that the documents "implicates some cabinet ministers in the President Bingu wa Mutharika administration, and officials in his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who have been dubbed by their critics as political refugees running from the long arm of the law".

Country Loses K5 billion in Corruption by Pilirani Phiri