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Bowman Appeals Conviction and 4 Years Jail Time

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Former minister and member of parliament in the PF government Bowman Lusambo, recently convicted for various fraudulent offenses and sentenced to four years in jail, has appealed his sentence to the Lusaka High Court.

Lusambo contends that the subordinate court judge erred in convicting him for corruptly acquiring public property, possessing property reasonably suspected to be proceeds of crime, and evading tax.
He also argues the judge erred in law and fact by analyzing evidence in an unbalanced manner.

“The court below erred in law and in fact by analyzing the evidence in an unbalanced manner, preferring the evidence of one side while excluding the other, overlooking the flaws of one side and not the other, disregarding the appellant’s evidence and reproduced exhibits as to the nature of ownership of the properties, thereby convicting the appellant for possession of proceeds of crime on unbalanced evidence.”

Lusaka Magistrate Faides Hamaundu last week, on November 8, convicted Lusambo for various corruption offenses and sentenced him to four years imprisonment with hard labor and fined him K27,000 for tax evasion.

This was shortly after he was convicted in absentia in Luanshya on charges of assault and sentenced to serve two years in jail.

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