THE Economic and Financial Crimes Court, High Court division, has dismissed former KCM Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu’s preliminary issue in which he argued that the court has no jurisdiction to determine a matter commenced by the DPP. This is the matter in which Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Gilbert Phiri dragged Lungu to court, seeking an order that the over US$24 million seized from accounts belonging to his law firm should be forfeited to the state. The DPP submitted to the Court that the seized amounts in the law firm’s different accounts are tainted property because they are proceeds of crime obtained from illegal and unlawful transactions. Lungu, however, raised a preliminary issue, contending that the court does not have...