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Zambia court acquits health minister accused of corruption

Zambia court acquits health minister accused of corruption

A Zambian court has acquitted Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya after ruling that the prosecution had brought insufficient evidence against him. On July 16, Chilufya had appeared before a Lusaka magistrate and denied four counts of corruption. Prosecutors had alleged that the health minister, on four separate occasions, used money believed to be proceeds from crime to acquire property, shares in a tourism firm and a passenger boat from the United Arab Emirates, in the period between December 2016 and January 2018. When the case returned to court on Tuesday, state prosecutor Clifford Moono said the state had no further evidence…
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