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Chiluba pursues Tedworth money

Chiluba pursues Tedworth money
By George Chellah
Mon 09 May 2011, 04:02 CAT

FREDERICK Chiluba’s divorce lawyer Sunday Nkonde is asking the Anti Corruption
Comm-ission (ACC) to account for rent they have collected from the property the
former president is claiming as he tries to collect the money.

But Access Finance Services Limited (AFSL) and Access Leasing Limited liquidation manager Marshall Mwansompelo has questioned the propriety of Nkonde acting for Tedworth Properties Incorporated, a company registered in Panama, which Chiluba used to acquire properties in Lusaka.

Mwansompelo said Nkonde’s behaviour is a breach of professional ethics and Law
Association of Zambia (LAZ) practice rules because when this case started,
Nkonde was the Solicitor General of Zambia.

“The matter is one in which there is a risk of a breach of confidences entrusted
to the practitioner, or to any partner or other associate, by another client or
where the knowledge which the practitioner possesses of the affairs of another
client would give undue advantage to the client,” Mwansompelo stated in an
affidavit.

He further stated that by virtue of Nkonde’s position as Solicitor General then,
he was personally in charge of all state civil litigation.

“Should Mr Nkonde today represent a party that was in litigation with the state
at the time he was Solicitor General in the same cause that he supervised as
Solicitor General?” Mwansompelo asked. “We submit that this is unlawful.”

But earlier in his letter to ACC, PF secretary general Wynter Kabimba stated
that judge Philip Musonda’s judgment ordering the ACC to return properties
forfeited to the state by Tedworth was fundamentally flawed in law and must be
appealed against to preserve public interest.

Kabimba stated that PF was aware that Tedworth was a shell and hence a front
company used by Chiluba to launder the proceeds of his corruption.

Labels: ACC, ACCESS FINANCIAL SERVICES, FREDERICK CHILUBA, PF, WYNTER KABIMBA

posted by MrK @ 5:04 PM