THE Drug Enforcement Commission, through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit, has formally charged and arrested former president Edgar Lungu’s associate Martin Mbaya for multiple money laundering offences. In a statement yesterday, DEC Public Relations Officer Allan Tamba stated that Mbaya had been charged with possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime, possession of a firearm without holding a licence, forgery, among others. “The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit (AMLIU), has formally charged and arrested Martin Kikumbi Mbaya, male, aged 50 of Plot 2174 Mean Wood Ndeke, Lusaka, for multiple money laundering offences. The charges slapped on Mr. Mbaya include the following; (i) Possession of property suspected of being proceeds of a crime, Contrary...

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