Court Convict Tourism Official For Theft
The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court has convicted Odoi Kamange who defrauded government a sum of K12 million when he was working at the Ministry of Tourism in 2013.
According to a statement from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) signed by, it’s Principal Public Relations Officer, Egrita Ndala, in 2013 Kamange borrowed a Business Registration Certificate from Esnath Ndovi to use it for tender submission at the Department of Tourism.
The Department paid a total amount of K12, 950,000 through a cheque which was in the name of the Business Registration Certificate of Esnath Ndovi in disregard that she had not rendered any service nor had supplied any goods to the government.
Later on, Kamange asked Ndovi to cash out the cheque and give him K12,000,000 to which she complied.
Thorough investigation into this deal, let the ACB to arrest Ndovi in 2014 who pleaded guilty to charges of theft and money laundering contrary to section 36(1c) of the Money laundering Act.
She was then convicted and sentenced to 42 months (3 and half years) while Kamange had then fled the country.
Kamange was later arrested in 2019 when upon returning to Malawi and was charged with the offences of theft by conversion and two counts of Money Laundering.
Meanwhile, the court has set the 15th of September 2022 as a day for sentencing of Kamange whose bail has been revoked.
