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  • Rwandan businessman Murekezi sentenced to five-year jail term for duty evasion

    Rwandan businessman Murekezi sentenced to five-year jail term for duty evasion

     

    Vincent Murekezi (front): he will spend five years in jail

    BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)—Rwandan businessman, Vincent Murekezi, was on Monday  sentenced to five years imprisonment for attempting to evade duty of about K2.2 million.

    According to press statement by Anti-Corruption Bureau, made available to Maravi Post, Murekezi committed the crime in 2008 in collaboration with Komani Nyasulu, a Malawian national clearing agent.

    “In 2008, the Anti-Corruption Bureau received a complaint alleging that on 30th December, 2007, Komani Nyasulu a clearing agent, corruptly received K200, 000.00 from Vincent Murekezi, a Rwandan businessman in order to facilitate evasion of duty of about K2.2 million,” reads the statement in part, signed by ACB spokesperson Egrita Ndala. (more…)