THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has continued to probe Foreign Affairs Minister Joe Malanji after summoning him for questioning to establish the source of funds he used to buy his US$1.4 million helicopter in December 2020. And a News Diggers investigation has revealed that Malanji funds his procurement transactions using a company called Gibson Power...

A UK-BASED lawyer representing Belarusian businessman Aleksandr Zingman, says the arrest of his client by Congolese authorities is politically motivated. And a representative of AFTRADE, a firm in which Zingman is a shareholder, revealed that the alleged arms dealer who was arrested along with the company director Aleh Vodchyts and his Italian partner Paolo Persico...

BELARUSIAN businessman and alleged arms dealer Aleksandr Zingman, who appeared in controversial pictures with President Edgar Lungu, Lusaka Businessman Valden Findlay and Russian businessman Alexander Mikheev, has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zingman, through his UK-based lawyers threatened to sue News Diggers in England if the newspaper did not disclose the source...

INSPECTOR General of Police Kakoma Kanganja has removed all division police officers in charge of traffic and transferred them to Force Headquarters “awaiting further deployment”. According to information obtained by News Diggers, the officers who have been left without any substantive positions, were transferred to clean up the traffic police department, following concerns. “The massive...

LUSAKA Mayor Miles Sampa has applied for adoption to contest as Matero member of parliament on the PF ticket. Speaking to journalists, Saturday, Sampa, who withdrew his application to re-contest the mayoral position, said he left some unfinished business in Matero. He also endorsed councillor Chilando Chitangala to take over from him. “I had earlier...

PATRICK Chibamba has insisted before the Lusaka High Court that he is still the recognised senior chief Shakumbila of the Sala people of Mumbwa District. Chibamba has submitted that at no time had he ceased to be senior chief Shakumbila as the purported dethronement did not follow the customary procedures of the Sala people that...

TRANSPARENCY International Zambia has challenged Lusaka South Multi Facility Economic Zone (LS-MFEZ) to explain what decision making process led to the valuation of eight plots, which Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini's company bought, at K100,000. And TIZ says by using his office as Speaker to direct LS-MFEZ to respond to a query...

AN investigation has revealed that a company belonging to Speaker of National Assembly Dr Patrick Matibini paid K100, 000 (about US$5,000) for eight plots worth K21 million (US$994,000) at the Lusaka South Multi Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ). When contacted to explain how Mishikili Properties Development Limited got the land in question, Speaker Matibini who is...

THE Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) and the Workers Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) have paid two Chinese Investors by the name of Zhang Lingling and Huang Yaochi amounts totaling US$44.8 million as consideration for the purchase of a minority stake in their tile-making company. The named Chinese are the two...

NATIONAL Democratic Congress (NDC) leader Chishimba Kambwili says President Edgar Lungu should have stayed away from congratulating Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni given the circumstances under which the controversial elections were held. In an interview, Kambwili said while it was normal for Presidents to congratulate each other following election triumphs, the case of Ugandan dictator Museveni...