THE Economic and Financial Crimes Court, High Court division, has dismissed former KCM Provisional Liquidator Milingo Lungu’s application to halt the case in which the DPP is seeking permission to confiscate over $24 million seized from accounts belonging to his law firm. Milingo wanted the matter halted pending his appeal to the Court of Appeal against the court’s decision to dismiss his preliminary issue in which he argued that the court had no jurisdiction to determine the 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...