KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu yesterday appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court on six new charges of theft and money laundering involving K17,250,000. Lungu, who is also facing another theft and money laundering case involving K4.4 million, was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for the second time in December last year for alleged theft of K17,250,000. Lungu is now charged with five counts of theft and one count of money laundering but will take plea in the new matter on March 7, 2022. In the first count, it is alleged that Lungu on July 26, 2021, in Lusaka, being the provisional liquidator for KCM, stole K5 million, property of the said KCM PLC. In the...

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