THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has seized five commercial buses valued at over K1.1 million and a fully furnished house in Lusaka suspected to have been obtained from proceeds of crime. In a statement, DEC Public Relations Officer Mwenge Mulenga said the seized assets were registered in names of unidentified individuals who had switched off phones and had gone into hiding, including the individual that used to receive the cashing from the drivers of the said buses. Mulenga revealed that according to DEC’s investigation, the said house had no records at the local authority and was registered under a power utility company using details of a known individual. “The Drug Enforcement Commission has seized five commercial buses valued at over...

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