THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) is wondering whether it should have seized the Presidential Jet which was used to facilitate the hauling of millions of dollars from Turkey by former Foreign Affairs minister Joseph Malanji. The Commission says it is conducting further investigations, with a high chance of capturing other high-profile personalities involved in financial crimes, insisting that more money linked to the matter remains unaccounted for. On Thursday, the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court sentenced former Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour on two counts of wilful failure to comply with laid-down procedures. Magistrate Irene Wishimanga also sentenced Malanji to four years’ imprisonment with hard labour on seven counts of being in possession of...
