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Liato granted Bail, Pending Appeal
Convicted former labour minister Austin Liato has been granted a K50 million cash bail pending appeal to the High court with two working sureties in his own recognisance.
Principal magistrate Aridah Chulu in granting bail this morning also ordered Mr Liato to be reporting to Lusaka Central Police every two weeks.
Magitrate Chulu has further ordered Mr. Liato to surrender his passport to the senior clerk of court.
The former labour minister was last week slapped with a two years jail sentence with hard labour after being found guilty of taking pecuniary advantage of money suspected to be proceeds of crime.
This is in the matter in which Mr Liato was facing one count of being in possession of K2.1 billion suspected of being proceeds of crime contrary to section one (1) of the forfeiture of proceeds of crime Act number 19 of 2010 of the laws of Zambia.
The K2.1 billion was unearthed from the ground at his Mwembeshi farm were he had buried it.
He became the first high-profile figure of the previous MMD Government facing corruption charges to be convicted.
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likaki nyau nyau
May 29, 2012 at 5:41 am
Just release him but let the cash and his farm be taken over by the State. appeals in our judicial system are a waste of time…..they just enrich defence lawyers
amoa
May 29, 2012 at 6:09 am
well, i expected to read some intelligent comments on this matter. somehow, the high court will have to grapple two constitutional issues i.e. presumption of innocence and the right to remain silent. these are constitutional guarantees and should not have been sacrificed for expedience of subsidiary legislation like the penal code or statutory instrument on forfeture of whatever. magistrate chulu erred in law when she ignored these constitutional issues. maybe it is deliberate cos she knew liato
LAKA
May 29, 2012 at 7:24 am
Let him apeal,so that they slap him 30 kaili a kulamutu.
igwala gwala
May 29, 2012 at 7:24 am
ndise chabe vipuba
Kay
May 29, 2012 at 7:33 am
Bushe mwebaishiba law twebeniko,wat do they luk at wen sentencing umuntu?kanshi bomfyeniko akandalama muwamyeko ifipatala ala ama beddings yachila ukununka kulwalilako nafimbi.fwe nchushi nifwe baibile kandalama at least tukaleibukisha ati bashitilemo amalangeti ya mu fipatala.
Uwakumafi
May 29, 2012 at 7:34 am
Alemona kwati twalisekelamo ukwikalapo mumafi ulebola wanya ukanwina amenshi pamu *****
LongJohn
May 29, 2012 at 7:51 am
Bail grated to him,ho…let the court follow the case step by step otherwise…
MaxMbizo
May 29, 2012 at 8:01 am
There is something seriously wrong with our justice system. If you are rich you can spend that five years outside jail and even live in luxury. A classical example of this is that of Kashiwa Bulaya who has spent his five years in high cost hospital bed at UTH and even comes to Manda Hill to do some shopping. On Africa Freedom Day, I actually saw him at Manda Hill! If it was some poor guy with no money to spare, he would have spent the next five years at Chimbokaila struggling to remove lice from his greying head.
confi.sys
May 29, 2012 at 8:07 am
I really am shocked at the levels of ignorance of Zambians and the bulk of the posters on this board.
What village do you come from where they taught to barely read and write. I did not think that people could be this dull but you’ve proved me wrong and I guess that’s why most of you were born pooor, live poor and will die poor and ignorant.
A judge works according to the law. If the law states the maximum penalty for a crime, that is what the limit for the judge is.
Posters seem under the delusion that a magistrate can just sentence a person to life. Go to school and learn!
You are complaining like virgins and yet you have not even read the laws or the draft constitution. Then when something happens you start farting around. Read, read, read.
You rejoice about your ignorance like monkeys. You are the same people that call Mampi a star when the outside world calls her a dancing dancing whore. Why do you love her? Because she appeals to your ignorance and strokes your idiotic ego.
You are like that villager who shows off about having a schooner in 2012 and thinks that when he comes to town girls will be falling over themselves for him like back home. Nix, the town league is more sophisticated. We are busy patting ourselves on the back for being African champs when all the big guns were absent. Foolish!
mathews katebe
May 29, 2012 at 8:27 am
Confi.sys, about the law you’re 100 percent right, but about Zambia being football champions as a result of some countries being absent, you are a BIG FOOL!! If they are big guns in football, why did they fail to qualify??? THINK WITH YOUR HEAD!
Chizutule
May 29, 2012 at 9:04 am
Iwe confi.sys. Hav u ever heard of “overwhelming public sentiments”? U mean all thes posts r frm dull pipo and u r th only inteligent 1. Thnk again my friend coz i thnk u r nw lost. I thnk uve never bn a tax payer to fil th pinch.
ONETIME RELOADED
May 29, 2012 at 9:23 am
OK
to chikopo confi.sys
May 29, 2012 at 9:28 am
i would really like to know what you have achieved since birth? how can you insult our mampi,national team and the Zambian people. usakabwezepo nafuti,uzakaona nga nivakubantu
Umusambashi
May 29, 2012 at 9:45 am
Ya!awe mwe. Zambians want intelligent and wise people in th judiciary and all sorts of leadership positns to govn ths country wel. Why is it so hard to understand. Read th posts again…no one is questng th intelligence,as its common knwldge tht thr r many intellignt FOOLS,bt rathr th pipo r questng th WISDOM in th actn.B articulat in analysng issues.Do nt jst read bt as my lwr sec teacher usd to say RUD!(READ,UNDERSTAND AND DO) not bobobo all th time. Bunda bwacisungu bt indepth takuli..law ni law bt hs to b administrd na wisdom nt intelligence…wht mks it law isnt intelligence bt th wisdom in its execution and understandng….wht do u expect whn tht constitutn is writtn by th intellignt tht lack wisdom…wld u qualify it as law….iyo nomba ni rule nt law….
Yaba…awee mwee…..fimo infintu kutti wapapa sana… Good day fellow Zambians and God bless this nation mayb He wil give us sme few wise and intelligent pipo in th judiciary
Tupac
May 29, 2012 at 9:55 am
@confi.sy chikala chobe anso you ‘re dullest person on earth,how dare you insultin’ us? chioneka monga suziba kantu kalikonse.
.
May 29, 2012 at 10:14 am
@ confused system.. ulitako lyakwa liato
Tonga Bull
May 29, 2012 at 11:36 am
all those who have stolen money should be jailed, starting wit mutembo nchito and fred membe who stole 14 billion.
Chibz
May 29, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Ku na kwa
Razor Junior
May 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Wanshi mwafunya uyo chi…….. But ths govnmnt, kaya?
mwaanga
May 29, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Can mother Zambia develop with your attitude and laziness? How can you keep a headline or story for 5 days?
By the way, the naming of your online flop is tribal.God help Zambia
mwaanga
May 29, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Can you do me favour, close this flop online stuff