FORMER Lusaka Province minister Bowman Lusambo has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he received US$350,000 from Mimbula Mining Consortium as consultancy fees for selling one of its dumps. This is a matter where Lusambo and his wife are charged with 10 counts of corrupt acquisition of public property, possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime, tax evasion and conspiracy to fraud. When the matter came up for continuation of defence before Magistrate Faides Hamaundu, Monday, Lusambo said he was in 2013 appointed as Consultant for Mimbula Mining Consortium. He stated that in 2015, he engaged Zumran Mining and Exploration Limited to buy the dump in Chingola. “Some time in 2013, I was approached by Copperbelt Small Mining...
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