Attorney General welcomes lifestyle audit calls
ATTORNEY General, Likando Kalaluka has welcomed calls for a lifestyle audit on ministers and other senior Government officials including those who are no longer in service.
Former Defence minister, George Mpombo and former Attorney General Musa Mwenya had earlier called for a lifestyle audit on ministers and public officials to dispel or ascertain speculations that most of them were corrupt.
When asked what he thought about the calls for a lifestyle audit on Government officials including himself, Mr Kalaluka said the audit was welcome.
“I think on that one I can safely say that it’s welcome,” he said. Mr Kalaluka was speaking at the launch of the 5th Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Trends Report of the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) in Lusaka yesterday.
And Mr Kalaluka said the government considered the report as a chance for retrospect on how best to fight financial crimes.
Mr. Kalaluka said that considering the noise that last year's report raised, the FIC trends reports were not meant to instill fear but how to improve the country's fight to financial crimes which compromised the country's security.
Mr. Kalaluka said that he was hopeful that the report released would further create a healthy debate on fighting financial crimes which had the capacity to collapse economic fundamentals.
Meanwhile, FIC acting board chairperson John Kasanga warned that Zambia risked being the epicenter for illicit financial flows and terrorist financing if such trends were not confronted openly to bring about sanity.