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International Conmen have invaded Zambian banks’ VISA cards system, Bank sources have told the Watchdog. One of the three biggest and oldest banks in Zambia has already shut its visa services leaving customers both in Zambia and abroad stranded. Another of the three biggest and oldest banks in Zambia is said to be planning to shut the system ... Full story

 Yusuf Ismail is a Zambian businessman of Asian origin. He is an elderly man who has spent most of his productive life in Zambia; but became a victim of greedy, police corruption and deadly business competition. His woes began in 1985 when ... Full story

The government of Zambia has in the past few years paid more than K11 billion to citizens it has either tortured or wrongfully detained. Payment records seen by the Watchdog show that President Rupiah Bwezani Banda received the biggest chunk of the compensation amounting to more than K3 billion. The compensations were paid starting from the tenure ... Full story

Former Deputy minister of Energy Lameck Chibombamilimo is critically ill at his Lusaka residence in Kabulonga, the Watchdog understands. But despite his 'very ill and bed-ridden condition, the government has dimissed and rejected pleas to evacuate him for specialist treatment. The MMD Mpulungu MP has kidney complications and the Watchdog has been informed that he urgently requires a kidney transplant. "He is only ... Full story

A well orchestrated plan to replace Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) National Secretary Katele Kalumba with parliamentary chief whip Vernon Mwaanga is underway, the Watchdog has learnt. Well placed sources have disclosed that very soon, calls to have Kalumba resign as national secretary and MP for Chiengi will begin by pro-MMD 'NGOs' and MMD lower branches. Sources have mentioned that President Rupiah Banda and former president Fredrick ... Full story

DHL Zambia has been accused of employing people without contracts, racism and giving top jobs to foreigners at the expense of local professionals. DHL is probably the leading logistics company in Zambia with fifteen offices in the country. The Watchdog has been informed that all top positions at DHL are held by white South Africans, some of them with questionable qualifications and entry permits. The company has also ... Full story

Police on Thursday and Friday last week searched Rajani Mahtani’s houses looking for evidence of money laundering activities. The Watchdog has also learned that a team of Information Technology (IT) experts from South Africa was in the country to analyse Mahatni’s computers. The search on Mahtani’s houses was done by a combined team of investigators from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), Zambia Police, Office ... Full story

The New Zealand man who is on the run due to allegations of defiling girls and and sexually abusing fellow workers has now fired workers at grace Academy in Makeni. And DJ wells and his wife, both on the run-with their children, have slid assets of a charity they have been running into a private partnership, ... Full story

A missionary from New Zealand, Mr DJ Wells, age 41, is on the run from Police, wanted for rape of a young girl, the Watchdog has been told. For some ten years he has been the Principal of a Christian School, Grace Academy of Makeni in Lusaka.  A source told the Watchdog that : " Staff have known for a long time about his active sex life with Teachers in ... Full story