By Collins Mtika Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika could be putting the remaining part of the.

New evidence shows that connected businessman has a curious citizenship, writes CIJM Reporter Businessman Simbi.

State procurement chiefs are unlikely to face any music, despite being implicated in Ombud report. Malawi’s Ombud Martha Chimuza-Mwangonde has formally asked the country’s prosecuting authorities to crack down on state procurement chiefs implicated in the multibillion-kwacha “Tractorgate” scandal.

President Peter Mutharika says Malawi must fight back against the fraudulent movement of foreign exchange offshore, which is aggravating poverty.

The scandal surrounding Malawi’s politically connected Sterling Timber International has deepened, with an insider alleging that the government settled the company’s large debt to the state-owned Malawi Savings Bank.

What happened to the R54-million paid out for a timber mill that was never built? Malawi’s current finance minister, Goodall Gondwe, helped to facilitate a 1.8-billion Malawi kwacha (R54-million) state loan for a timber processing factory that, three years later, has still not been built.