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Article: Malawi court rescues vice president from prosecution
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 16, 2005
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Malawi court rescues vice president from prosecution
LILONGWE, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Malawi High Court sitting in the
country's commercial capital, Blantyre, Wednesday granted Vice
President Cassim Chilumpha an injunction preventing him from
appearing before court for fraud committed six years ago.
The vice president was implicated in a 2 million-US dollars fraud
in the country's Ministry of Education in 1999 when he was minister
responsible for the education portfolio.
Chilumpha was supposed to appear before a magistrate court in the
capital Lilongwe on Wednesday morning after Director of Public
Prosecutions (DPP), Ishmael Wadi, summoned the vice president on