FOLLOWING Bowman’s Lusambo’s jailing last week by the Economic and Financial Crimes Court, the Anti Corruption Commission has now gone after his houses in Chamba valley and Silverest gardens.
The Anti-graft body has moved a motion for forfeiture of Lusambo’s Chamba valley fancy house, six incomplete flats within the vicinity, and four houses in Silverest gardens.
It has cited the convict, his wife Nancy Manase in whose name the houses are registered and the seekers of the houses Mukuka Munkonge and ZDA-Henan Guoji Development Company Limited.
According to an affidavit in support of originating notice of motion sworn by ACC investigations offer Mulenga Mulenga, Lusambo engaged two Zambians to construct a driveway at his residence in Chamba Valley at a price of US$28, 250 and K50, 000
“I established that subdivision F/609/E/44/B/9 was valued at K17.6 million market value and K13.5million reinstatement value,” he said.
“I established that F/609/E/50 on first October 2018, a 5 year lease agreement was signed by Lusambo, Munkonge and Kapampa Munkonge at K3,500 monthly rental value.”
Mulenga stated that he established from the lease agreement that Lusambo was given a first right of refusal in the event that the land was to be sold.
He said the governemnt valuation department, valued the property at K5,200,000 being the market value and at K4,400,000 as the re instalment value.
Mulenga said Lusambo’s total emoluments as a provincial minister for Lusaka were K2, 546, 359.64.
He established that the Bulldozer also had loans amounting to a total sum of K870,000.
“Lusambo received K2,001,696.12 categorized as salary, salary arrears and gratuity. He also received a total of K726,802.43 as housing and committee sitting allowance from the National Assembly. I totaled the emoluments received by Lusambo including the loan ,and it came to K6,144,858.19,”Mulenga explained.
“During investigations I established that Lusambo owns only two companies namely Mpongwe General Dealers limited and Chichele FM limited which he indicated had been recently registered and therefore non operational.”
He said he gave the former lawmaker an opportunity to explain his sources of income in comparison to the value of his fancy house and the six incomplete blocks of flats on sub/E/50 but he failed to do so.
“I found that his income was not commensurate with properties linked to him. I therefore reasonably suspected that the properties linked to him were acquired using proceeds of crime,” Mulenga said.
“During the period between 2016-2021, Lusambo committed a serious offence in the manner that he came into possession of the two properties which are subject of these proceedings.”
He said he also established that Nancy owns four houses at Silverest Gardens which are reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime.
“The four houses were valued at US$378,000, and she paid $193,219 and the remaining balance is US$78,580. I then conducted a financial analysis for purposes of establishing how much was paid in Zambian kwacha and established that the total piad was K2,260,850,” Mulenga stated.
“I established that Nancy is just a house wife and is not carrying on any formal or informal profitable business. I decided to interview Nancy to allow her to pronounce herself on the source of income she used to acquire the four houses and she opted to remain silent.”
He said he concluded that the four properties were proceeds of crime and Nancy committed a serious offence between January 1 ,2018 and December 31 ,2020, and charged and arrested her for the offence of possession of property reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime.
Mulenga said the properties are tainted and prayed to the court to order for their forfeiture.
By Mwaka Ndawa
Kalemba November 17, 2024.
