DRUG Enforcement Commission (DEC) Director General Mary Chirwa says the Commission doesn’t target individuals when investigating financial crimes but simply follows the money and suspected illegal property. And Chirwa says DEC does its work in a professional manner, without fear or favour, and doesn’t do anything outside the law. A document recently leaked in which a Lusaka Magistrate authorised DEC officer, Emmanuel Khondowe, to inspect former president Edgar Lungu’s Atlas Mara bank account in August this year, as part of an ongoing investigation. Chapter One Foundation executive director Linda Kasonde said DEC was within the law when it comes to investigating Lungu because immunity only applies to court cases. But PF lawyer Tutwa Ngulube said the investigation against Lungu was...

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