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Freelance Journalist Chanda Chimba III Jailed Two Years

The Lusaka Magistrates Court has sentenced freelance Journalist Chanda Chimba the third to two years imprisonment for the disposal of more than K611 million suspected to be proceeds of crime.
This is the money which he paid to various Media Houses to air and publish his Stand Up for Zambia documentary.
Meanwhile Chimba has been fined a sum of K1000 for unlawful printing and publishing of Newspapers called Stand Up For Zambia and News Of Our Times which were not registered with the National Archives, or in default 6 months imprisonment which he will serve concurrently.
In his mitigation Chimba through his Defense Lawyer Charles Lisita asked the court to exercise maximum leniency on grounds that his prostate cancer illness is at stage four and that he has to attend cancer diseases hospital three times a month.

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