High Court Judge Redson Kapindu has discharged former Reserve Bank Governor Dr Dalitso Kabambe and former Deputy Governor Henry Mathanga from an abuse of office charge where the two were being accused of instructing officials of the Reserve Bank of Malawi to misreport on Malawi’s Net International Reserves and Gross Reserve Liabilities to the International Monetary Fund IMF during the period 2018 -2019.
In his ruling, delivered on Friday, 19th April, 2024 at the High Court in Lilongwe, Kapindu discharged the charge on facts that the state failed to commence the trial on the charge of abuse of office against both defendants within twelve-month period as prescribed in the law since the matter is a misdemeanor...