Bank manager testifies in Kapoko case
By DORIS KASOTEA LUSAKA magistrates court yesterday heard how Indo-Zambia Bank issued a statement of accounts belonging to Goldman Insurance to the Anti-Corruption Commission to assist with investigations in the case involving former Ministry of Health human resources officer Henry Kapoko and others.
The bank’s assistant branch manager Paul Mwila, 42, told magistrate Kenneth Mulife that on June 18, 2009, he received two officers from the ACC with a search warrant requesting for a statement of accounts.
Kapoko is alleged to have obtained K1.9 billion by false pretences contrary to Section 309 of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia.
According to particulars of the offence, between January 22, 2009 and January 28, 2009 in Lusaka, Kapoko, while acting together with persons unknown but with intent to defraud, obtained K1.98 billion from the Ministry of Health and purported to have ordered and shipped 50,000 mother-baby kits when they in fact did not.
But the defence team objected to the production of the statement of accounts, arguing that the document was computer-generated.
ACC prosecutor Dennis Simwinga submitted that the defence was merely objecting without citing authorities or adequate previous ruling.
Mr Simwinga stated that the ruling which was being referred to had its own facts and authorities.
Earlier, Immigration Department officer in charge of investigations and database Given Musamba, 42, told the court that Kapoko and one of his co-accused Fred Chileshe travelled outside the country on February 22, 2009.
Trial continues today.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
