{"id":54458,"date":"2014-10-08T06:37:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=54458"},"modified":"2014-10-08T06:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T06:37:22","slug":"malawis-treza-senzani-jailed-over-cashgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/malawis-treza-senzani-jailed-over-cashgate\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi’s Treza Senzani jailed over ‘Cashgate’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Malawi has jailed its first senior official for the so-called “Cashgate” affair – the worst financial scandal in the country’s history.<\/p>\n
A court in Lilongwe sentenced former tourism official Treza Senzani to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour.<\/p>\n
She pleaded guilty to stealing $150,000 (\u00a393,000) of government money.<\/p>\n
At least 70 people have been arrested over “Cashgate” after an audit revealed that about $30m had been skimmed from the government payment system.<\/p>\n
Businessmen and politicians are alleged to have connived with civil servants to make payments for goods and services that were never delivered.<\/p>\n
Western donor nations and agencies, which provide 40% of Malawi’s budget, pulled the plug on vital aid worth around $150m in reaction to the scandal.<\/p>\n
Allegations of the massive looting of government money became public following the shooting of the finance ministry’s then budget director Paul Mphwiyo in September 2013.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malawi has jailed its first senior official for the so-called “Cashgate” affair – the worst financial scandal in the country’s history. A court in Lilongwe sentenced former tourism official Treza Senzani to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. She pleaded guilty to stealing $150,000 (\u00a393,000) of government money. At least 70 people have been arrested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n