By Timothy Peter

The Senior Resident Magistrate’s Court in Lilongwe has set September 15, 2022, as a date for sentencing of a 2013 cashgate suspect Odoi Kamange.

The court convicted Kamange on September 2, 2022, of one count of theft and two counts of money laundering.

Principal Public Relations Officer at the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Egrita Ndala has said in a statement that Kamange committed the offences while working with the Department of Tourism.

“The Department of Tourism paid a total of amount of MK12,950, 000 through a cheque in the name of the business registration certificate belonging to Esnarth Ndovie,” says Ndala in the statement.

“This is not withstanding the fact that Esnarth Ndovie had not rendered any service nor supplied any goods to Malawi Government.”

Later, Kamange got K12 million from the cashed cheque and later fled the country. Ndovie got K950,000 from the deal and was already sentenced to three and half years on the same charges.

In 2019, the ACB arrested Kamange after he returned to Malawi.