DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Gilbert Phiri has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Court to forfeit 43,903 Mukula timber logs to the state, as they are tainted property. Phiri is seeking a non-conviction based forfeiture pursuant to Sections 29 and 32 of the Forfeiture of Proceeds of Crime Act. In an affidavit in support of the originating notice of motion for a forfeiture order, Zambia National Service (ZNS) officer Mateyo Kumwenda stated that in 2021, the Service mopped up 4,630 illegally harvested Mukula logs. “I, Mateyo Kumwenda, employee of the Zambia National Service (ZNS) was attached to the mopping up and disposal of illegally harvested Mukula logs across the country and therefore competent to swear this my affidavit. In...