{"id":1217730,"date":"2022-10-06T15:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/zambia-ex-health-minister-charged-with-17m-in-corruption-scandal\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T15:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:42:33","slug":"zambia-ex-health-minister-charged-with-17m-in-corruption-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/zambia-ex-health-minister-charged-with-17m-in-corruption-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia ex-Health Minister charged with $17m in corruption scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"30\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chitalu Chilufya has denied the charge<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The authorities in Zambia have charged a former health minister with corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Chitalu Chilufya is accused of conspiracy to defraud the state $17m (\u00a315m) over the supply of health kits when he served as minister in the last administration, according to a statement by the anti-corruption commission.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged alongside former permanent secretary Mulalelo Kakulubelwa and three directors of a local pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>They all denied the charge and were released on bond.<\/p>\n<p>They were among prominent personalities arrested on Wednesday over various alleged offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition politician Kelvin Bwalya Fube was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) for alleged failure to report a suspicious transaction, contrary to money-laundering laws.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Margaret Musonda was arrested for being in possession of property worth over $1.1m suspected of being proceeds of crime.<\/p>\n<p>They have not pleaded to the charges and were released on bond.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Y7wH6bQggTw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I didn&#039;t know my husband has side-chicks - Wife Laments - Obra on Adom TV.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y7wH6bQggTw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chitalu Chilufya has denied the charge The authorities in Zambia have charged a former health minister with corruption. Chitalu Chilufya is accused of conspiracy to defraud the state $17m (\u00a315m) over the supply of health kits when he served as minister in the last administration, according to a statement by the anti-corruption commission. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}