ZAF Officer and Wife Jailed for Corruption Involving K7 Million
A ZAMBIA Air Force (ZAF) warrant officer in charge of cashiers at headquarters has been sentenced to three years imprisonment with hard labour for corrupt practices involving over K7 million.
Albert Siyunda, 54, of Lusaka, was on Tuesday jailed alongside his 44-year-old wife Nandila Lyatamani after being found guilty of possession of seven houses reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime.
Lusaka principal resident magistrate Sylvia Munyinya-Okoh found that the prosecution had, from a balance of probabilities of the offence, proved the case against the couple.
“Consequently, I find Albert Likezo Siyunda and Nandila Lyatamani guilty as charged and I convict them accordingly of the seven counts,” the magistrate said.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested the couple in 2022 for seven counts of possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime.
Zambia Daily Mail
ZAF leads the Defence Forces in corruption. Most of its commanders have been charged after leaving office.
The corruption in the defence forces runs deep. Because of the supposedly “security risk” cover, they cannot be audited like other entities.
The prosecution did an excellent job in bringing this thieving couple to justice. Let us see more of such convictions so we can put to rest the total lack of respect for public property, the “uubomba mwibala alya mwibala” PF syndrome.
You want to Bembanise theft thus you keep quoting a CB bemba man as justifying theft
Ba Chimwemwe, my post has nothing to do with tribal profiling. It is a figment of your fertile imagination.
In any case the couple involved are definitely not Bemba going by their names. So I am at a loss as to how you arrived at your obviously wrong conclusion.
Quote:”from a balance of probabilities of the offence, proved the case against the couple.” End of quote. In as much as corruption needs to be fought against. This law is flawed. It assumes one is guilty simply be owning property. It places the burden of proof on the accused instead of placing it on the prosecution. Corruption must be prevented before it occurs not chased after the fact with circumstantial evidence. It may not be long before this law is challenged in the constitutional court. Will not be surprised if may be found to be unconstitutional.