FORMER Zambia Air Force (ZAF) commander Eric Chimese has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Court (EFCC) to dismiss the notice of motion for non-conviction-based forfeiture of his properties. Chimese, who has filed a notice of motion to raise preliminary issues on a point of law, has told the court that application for the forfeiture of his properties is incompetently before it. This is in a matter in which the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Gilbert Phiri, has asked the Court to forfeit to the State, properties allegedly belonging to Chimese on grounds that they might be proceeds of crime. The total market value of the properties which the State wants forfeited is K91,400,000, and include a property situated on...