Court Revokes Mphwiyo’s Bail
High court in Lilongwe has revoked bail of former budget director Paul Mphwiyo who is answering cash gate case
On 20th October the court heard an application by the state to revoke the bail for Mphwiyo who has absconded bail since June this year
Therefore the court has ruled that he should be arrested whenever and wherever he will be found
It has also ordered that Mphwiyo’s bail bond of ten million kwacha and that of his four sureties who were each bonded at 2 million kwacha be forfeited to Malawi government
Mphwiyo was found with a case to answer and it awaits judgment but in July Malawi Police service said he had been on the run days before the high court was expected to deliver a judgment on his case
In June this year, Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that High Court can issue a judgment in the nine-year K2.4 billion Cashgate case involving Mphwiyo and 17 others.
Mphwiyo and his co-accused had applied to Supreme Court to have their criminal trial to start again because the new presiding High Court Judge, Ruth Chinangwa, had taken over the case, replacing the late Judge Esmie Chombo, who retired.
However, the Supreme Court of Appeal rejected their application and if convicted Mphwiyo faces over ten years in prison.
