BLANTRYRE-(MaraviPost)-Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Blantyre on Monday, December 20, 2021 formally charged businessman Abdul Karim Batatawala with two counts of money laundering and defrauding the Department of Immigration Services.
However, through his lawyer, Alexious Nampota, Batatawala has applied for bail but State through the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB ) insists that the Indian must remain in police custody as investigations continue.
Batatawala was arrested in connection to the alleged dubious awarding of contract worth over MK2 billion to supply police uniforms and other accessories at the Immigration Department in 2010.
The country’s graft body Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 arrested business person of Asian origin Abdul Karim Batatawala in relation to suspected corrupt practices in multi-billion-kwacha procurement contracts for uniforms and other accessories at the immigration.
ACB director general Martha Chizuma says the offences were committed between 2009 and 2012.
The investigation on the matter has leads that suggest, Batatawala may have stashed some of the proceeds overseas.
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