THE Drug Enforcement Commission has warned the National Housing Empowerment Fund (NHEF) to stop operating until the matter in which its directors were been arrested for money laundering involving K36 million is concluded in court. In November, DEC through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit arrested three NHEF directors for money laundering involving K36 million. The directors who include Kamphembele Ngulube, Margaret Mabingo and Lusuntha Ngulube, allegedly obtained K36 million from members of the public on pretext that NHEF had plots for sale in an area called “Riverdale City” situated in Lusaka’s Leopards Hill area, when in fact not. But in a Facebook post, Tuesday, NHEF CEO Kamphelembe Ngulube asked President Hakainde Hichilema to intervene because the matter had not been...

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