THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has appealed to the High Court against the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court’s decision to acquit PF faction vice-president Given Lubinda of four counts of being in possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime. In a notice of appeal, DPP Gilbert Phiri argued that the Magistrates’ Court, in acquitting Lubinda of corruption charges, erred in law when it found that the monies in his dollar account were not proceeds of crime. Phiri also submitted that the lower court had erred when it held that the US$50,000 paid to Kingsland City as part payment towards the purchase of a landed property was not tainted property. “The trial Court erred in law when it found that...