THE Lusaka High Court has dismissed a case in which former Zambia Investment Holding (ZCCM-IH) chief executive officer Pius Kasolo had asked it to declare that his termination of employment was without a valid reason and demanded full payment of his accrued salaries. High court Industrial Relations Division Judge Egispo Mwansa said there was evidence...

THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has dragged four Chinese-owned companies to court for offences of tax evasion. And the Authority has revealed that government lost taxes in the sum of K10.7 million due to alleged fraudulent recovery of Value Added Tax by the said companies and Directors. The Chinese-owned companies which have been dragged to...

THE Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has filed a notice to appeal against the Lusaka Magistrates' Court's decision to discharge former housing and infrastructure development minister Ronald Chitotela of two counts of possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime. Meanwhile, DPP Lillian Siyunyi has also filed a notice of appeal against Lusaka...

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit, has arrested a 38-year-old female accounts assistant for money laundering activities involving over K2.3 million. And the Commission has jointly charged and arrested two Directors for Mutengo Wandalama Enterprises Ltd for providing Money Lending Services without a License. In a statement, Wednesday, DEC deputy...

FORMER Chilanga UPND member of parliament Keith Mukata's wife, Marricoh Roisin Hoare, has pleaded not guilty to four charges of theft of a motor vehicle, theft by director, forgery and uttering a false document. In count one, Hoare, 41, a businesswoman of Lusaka's Chelstone area, is alleged to have on January 29, 2021, stolen a...

THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation says President Hakainde Hichilema has accepted a rare invitation to address the European Union (EU) Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, this Thursday. And the Ministry says President Hichilema will immediately after his address, travel to Kigali, Rwanda to participate in the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)...

THE Public Passenger Drivers Association of Zambia has sued RTSA and Ulendo Taxi Limited, seeking a permanent injunction restraining the latter from operating online taxis. The association claims that the Road Transport and Safety Agency has not granted Ulendo any road service licenses which permit it to carry passengers on public roads for a fee....

THE Lusaka High Court has dismissed, in its entirety, a case in which PF sued the State, claiming damages over the alleged intimidation and harassment of its members by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in relation to the party's source of campaign funds. Justice Charles Kafunda said in his ruling that his court had no...

CONSTITUTIONAL Court Judge Annie Sitali has refused to grant a stay of President Hakainde Hichilema's decision to remove former High Court Judge Joshua Banda from his office. Justice Sitali said in her ruling that she can't grant Justice Banda his application for two reasons, the first being that the decision which the dismissed judge wants...

POLICE in North-Western Province have apprehended two suspects for allegedly breaking into the office of an accountant at Kalumbila Civic Centre and stealing a safe which contained K24,000, meant for Constituency Development Fund. In a statement, Thursday, Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga stated that the safe was later discovered damaged and empty a few meters away...