NPA Confiscates Corruptly Acquired Assets Worth Nearly US$6 million

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)’s Asset Management Unit has said it has confiscated corruptly acquired assets worth close to US$6 million, ZBC News reported.

Acting Prosecutor General Mr Nelson Mutsonziwa made the remarks while addressing delegates during a National Prosecuting Authority Strategic Review Workshop this Monday in Gweru. He said:

A number of corruptly acquired assets have thus been recovered from criminals using both methods of asset forfeiture, some of which are now under the management of the Asset Management Unit and so far, corruptly acquired assets worth US$5.6 million have been forfeited by our courts and the pending cases that are before the courts involve corruptly acquired assets worth US$D 20 million. In regard to other criminal matters, this year, we have received a total of 79 064 cases, of which 44 918 have been completed and the remaining cases are at various stages of prosecution.

Mutsonziwa said the department is initiating several strategies to improve the country’s justice delivery system to ensure that those accused of corruption are brought to trial and effectively and efficiently prosecuted with a minimum of delay.

He added that the National Anti-corruption Strategy Steering Committee agreed that non-complex corruption cases be completed within six months and complex matters within a period of 12 months respectively.   

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