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The Drug Enforcement Commission has arrested two senior employees of Food
Reserve Agency in Kalomo district for money laundering involving over K200
million.
Commission Public Relations Manager, John Nyawali has named the arrested as Joe Mhone a Marketing Assistant, who was arrested together with Gilbert Chikumba a Deport Clerk
Particulars of the offence are that the duo blocked peasant farmers in the area from selling their maize to FRA but swayed the farmers to sale the maize to them at lower prices pretending that the agency was not buying the commodity.
The duo later sold the maize to FRA using names of their junior officers contrary to the FRA guidelines which govern each marketing season.
The two have been released on a K10 million bond each and will appear in the Kalomo Magistrate court on 13th September 2011.
Commission Public Relations Manager, John Nyawali has named the arrested as Joe Mhone a Marketing Assistant, who was arrested together with Gilbert Chikumba a Deport Clerk
Particulars of the offence are that the duo blocked peasant farmers in the area from selling their maize to FRA but swayed the farmers to sale the maize to them at lower prices pretending that the agency was not buying the commodity.
The duo later sold the maize to FRA using names of their junior officers contrary to the FRA guidelines which govern each marketing season.
The two have been released on a K10 million bond each and will appear in the Kalomo Magistrate court on 13th September 2011.
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