THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday ordered three senior officials with subsidiary companies of the defunct
Senior Resident Magistrate in Charge
Mwanyika is President of Pangea Minerals,
The three officials of the mining companies paid the money in question and got out of the remand prison. Before their conviction, the accused persons were facing a total of 39 counts in different transactions involving over 10tri/-.
Such offences includes conspiracy to commit offences, leading organized crime, forgery of documents, uttering false documents, corrupt transaction, tax evasion of
However, the accused persons decided later to write to the Directors of Public Prosecutions (DPP) with a view of entering into a plea bargaining agreement in order to end the criminal trial summarily. The DPP accepted the request and decided to drop the other counts, under which he retained only one count.
Such new charge was subsequently presented in court by the prosecution, led by Principal State Attorneys
The prosecution further went on reading over the memorandum of facts of the offence, under which the accused persons also admitted the same to be true. It was at that point in time when the court convicted them of the offence charged and they were subsequently sentenced accordingly.
When sentencing the accused persons, the magistrate directed them to abide by the terms and conditions of the agreement entered, including paying to the government the 1.5bn/- compensation immediately.
Before being sentenced, Advocates
According to the prosecution, the accused persons committed the offence on diverse dates
The court heard that jointly and together, by their wilful acts, the three officials of the mining companies made false statement to Commissioner General of the
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