Ex Dar city accountant charged for allegedly for occasioning 8.9bn/- loss
FORMER accountant of the Dar es Salaam City Council, Alinanuswe Mwasasumbe, has been arraigned before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court, facing 13 charges including abuse of position, forgery, money laundering as well as occasioning a loss of over 8.9bn/- to the council.
The 60-year-old had his Economic Crime Case No. 34 of this year read in court by Senior State Attorney Fatuma Waziri, assisted by Veronica Chimwanda, before the court’s Principal Resident Magistrate Ferdinadri Kihwonde.
However, before his charges were read, the magistrate told the accused that he was not required to enter any plea in court because the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case, except with a special permit.
In the first count, the accused i charged with abuse of position contrary to Section 31 of the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Act (Cap 320 R E 2022), read together with paragraph 22 of the First Schedule to and Sections 57(1) and 80(2) both of the Economic and Organized Crimes Control Act (Cap 200 R E 2022),
It is alleged that the accused, on diverse dates between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2021 within llala District in Dar es Salaam, being a public official employed by Dar es Salaam City Council as an accountant in the cause of discharging his functions, abused his position by failing to deposit the collected government revenues into bank accounts maintained by the council.
It is further alleged that he committed an act that violated the provisions of Section 45 of the Local Government Finance Act (Cap 290 R E 2022) and Regulation 50(5) of the Local Government Financial Memorandum 2009 for purposes of obtaining an undue advantage for himself worth over 8.9bn/-
In the second count of forgery, the prosecution alleged that on April 30, 2021, within Ilala District in Dar es Salaam, with intent to defraud, a false document, namely, A Letter Titled ‘KURUDISHIWA FEDHA ILIYOTUMIKA KUANZIA TAREHE 01 HADI 30 MWEZI APRIL 2021’ purporting to show that he was entitled to be refunded the requested amount, which was used to pay for casual market labor and other expenses, the fact he knew to be false.
The court also heard that on the third to eleventh count of forgery, the accused, on diverse dates within the aforementioned location, with intent to defraud, made false documents purporting to show that he was entitled to be refunded the requested amount, which was used to pay for casual Market labor and other expenses, a fact he knew to be false.
In the 12 counts of money laundering, Waziri claimed that, on diverse dates between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2021 within the same location, the accused allegedly acquired the property, namely over 8.9bn/- from the Council, while at the time of receipt of the said money he knew that it was the proceeds of a predicate forgery offense.
In the last count of occasional losses to a specified authority, contrary to paragraph 10 (1) of the First Schedule to and Sections 57(1) and 60(2) both of the Economic and Organized Crimes Control Act [Cap 200 R E 2022], the accused on diverse dates between July 1, 2019 and June 30, 2021 within the same location by his willful acts caused Dar es Salaam City Council to suffer a pecuniary loss of 8.9bn/-.
However, the senior state attorney told the court that investigations into the case are incomplete and asked the court to set another date for its mention.
Magistrate Kihwonde adjourned the case until July 10th, this year, when it will come up for another mention. The accused was sent back to remand prison because the charge of money laundering he is facing has no bail.
