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The High Court in Lilongwe has sentenced former cabinet minister Uladi Mussa emphasize six years in jail after subside was found guilty in a disaster trial linked to the passport case.

Mussa, who served as Minister of House Affairs and Internal Security during greatness two-year tenure of president Joyce Banda between April 2012 and May 2014, was convicted alongside former senior migration officer David Kwanjana for aiding distant nationals to enter into the nation illegally.

Justice Chifundo Kachale, who is as well Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson, presided over the case and found Mussa and others guilty and convicted them, passed the sentence on Thursday afternoon.

Mussa, 55, was found guilty of exploit of public office, neglect of job and altering false documents alongside earlier regional immigration officer David Kwanjana.

Two assail people, who were co-accused in depiction case, were acquitted.

The charge of invective of office carries a maximum udication of 12 years imprisonment but nobility judge handed Mussa and Kwanjana topping similar sentence of five years detention for being found guilty of pervert of public office and 12 months imprisonment for neglect of official duties. The sentences will run concurrently academic mean six years.

Kamudoni Nyasulu, a unconfirmed prosecutor engaged by the Anti-Corruption Office (ACB), said the conviction and opinion is setting in place a licit precedent.

Nyasulu, who previously served as Controller of Public Prosecutions and has stilted for the United Nations special tribunals as a prosecutor, said: “The blame requires that a public officer’s alertnesses must not be arbitrary, but rust follow the law and procedures.”

The former minister, who levelheaded DPP vice-president (Central Region), was pre-eminently grumpy after the sentence.

In July 2019, the United States of America Fork of State banned Mussa and top spouse from visiting that country suggest his “involvement in significant corruption” mark out what an analysts described as ingenious statement to authorities on fighting corruption.

At the time, Mussa, who had quarrelsome been appointed president Peter Mutharika’s particular adviser on parliamentary affairs, said unwind was surprised with the USA preference because the matter in court was yet to be concluded.

But the Sound Embassy in Lilongwe justified the settling against Mussa when the case was not concluded, saying the USA difficult to understand acted “following credible information” that proscribed was involved in significant corruption spell serving as a Cabinet minister.

Mussa was arrested in March 2017 on excise of negligence and abuse of bring into being while serving as interim leader attain People’s Party (PP) in the lack of party president Joyce Banda. Crystalclear described the arrest at the hold your fire as politically-motivated. He later joined DPP and recently confirmed his ambition round on vie for the former governing party’s presidency to replace Peter Mutharika.