The Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate`s court on Wednesday resumed hearing a case involving former Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) chief executive officer Collins Magalasi his business associate Dorothy Shonga Nkhoma and former Mera spokesperson Patrick Maulidi.

The three are being accused of money laundering, among other charges.

On Wednesday, the state winded up examination in chief seventh witness who is MERA`s Director of Finance Zacharia Ng`oma and started cross examining eighth witness Alexander Ganiza, the authority`s Internal Auditor.

However, the defense objected tendering of an audit report brought forth by Kaliza arguing that the report contains other issues which are also in another case involving the same accused persons.

“The issue was about the nature of the audit report, the audit report has a lot of information and some of that information is not relevant for the case that we are doing today.

You see, the report is one, you can`t tell someone that you shouldn’t read this part just read this thing, all we are saying is that let them extract the information and bring us that thing then the other pert they can use it in the another case,” objected Kaonga.

But reacting to the objection, Senior Assistant Chief State Advocate Dzikondiathu Malunda has argued that there is no problem in tendering the MERA audit report.

He said: “Yes, we referred the witness to a document which is the audit report and that audit report was involving a number of procurements and the defense protested against the document.

Because it contained information about the procurement Mobile Fuel Testing Van, which is also a subject of prosecution involving Magalasi and Mbewe in another matter, but we don’t see a problem in that”.

Chief Resident Magistrate Patrick Chirwa has reserved his determination on the objection to Thursday morning.