THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has arrested a banker and two marketing assistants for forgery and money laundering related offences involving K149 million.
Baruch Chambakati Phiri, 26, a branch coordinator at a named bank in Petauke District was arrested and jointly charged with Musonga Changa, 28, a marketing assistant at Food Reserve Agency (FRA) and Petronela Landu, 24, also a marketing assistant at FRA in Petauke, for forgery and money laundering offences involving more than K149 million.
According to a statement released by DEC public relations officer Samuel Silomba in Lusaka yesterday, the trio is alleged to have forged Produce Receipt Notes (PRN) and Goods Received Notes (GRN) purporting to show that farmers had delivered bags of maize valued at K149.7
million to FRA when in fact not.
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