Former PCCB director Kulthum Mansoor charged with laundering Sh1.4 billion
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- Former Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) director of planning, monitoring and evaluation, Ms Kulthum Mansoor has been arraigned at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court charges with economic sabotage and money laundering.
Dar es Salaam. Former Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) director of planning, monitoring and evaluation, Ms Kulthum Mansoor was today, March 29, 2019, arraigned at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court charged with eight counts of economic sabotage and money laundering.
Reading the charges before Principal Resident Magistrate Kelvin Mhina, state attorney Wankyo Simon said between January 2013 and May 2018, Ms Mansoor produced fake documents of land ownership from Bagamoyo District Council.
The court heard that the accused later obtained Sh1.477 billion from suspect proceeds using the same documents.
According to Wankyo, the accused was consciously aware that she was committing a crime that is punishable by law.
The court was told that between January 2012 and May 2017 in Upanga area in Dar es Salaam, Ms through deceit and by false pretence received Sh1.477bn from six PCCB officials as payment for the plots in Ukuni Village.
She was accused of receiving the money in spite of knowing that it was a product of other offences. This also happened between January 2013 and May 2018 in Upanga.
The suspect wasn’t required to enter any plea to charges because the court had no jurisdiction of hearing the case.
Mr Wankyo told the court that investigation was yet to be completed, requesting the court to set another date for mentioning of the case.
Magistrate Mhina adjourned the case until April 12, 2019 and remanded the accused because money laundering and economic sabotage charge attracts no bail.
