The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) spokeswoman Theresa Katongo said on Wednesday that Zambia’s former Air Force commander Lt-Gen Chimese will be charged jointly with James Chungu, a director of Chita Lodges Limited on suspicion of “various criminal activities”.
Ms. Katongo said the two are accused of “concealing property, wilfully giving false information, abuse of office, and possession of property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime.
The ex-military boss is accused of concealing ownership of a farm in Lusaka’s upmarket area of Ibex Hill on which nine fully furnished flats, an upstair house, a gym, visitors’ quarters, and semi-detached servants’ quarters have been developed.
Lt-Gen Chimese aged fifty-one was fired by President Edgar Lungu last year for unknown reasons.
Early this month, the Infrastructure minister Ronald Chitotela was arrested by the anti-graft commission for concealing property believed to have been bought with the proceeds of crime. He was released on bond pending to be arraigned.