Former Ondangwa-based magistrate Liwena Walter Mikiti was acquitted on all charges on Tuesday after he applied for a section 174 discharge. He was accused of duping insurance giant Santam Namibia out of N$234 555 in fraudulent insurance claims. He pleaded not guilty to the charges when his trial started in November 2021. He did not...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan sentenced former police officer Ricardo Nestor (35) on charges of theft and money laundering to effective five years in prison yesterday. The sentencing was handed down after Nestor was found guilty of theft and money laundering of an amount of N$720 000, which he transferred to his...
KATIMA MULILO – The Kongola community has protested the provisional withdrawal of a case in which over N$4 million allegedly vanished into thin air at the Zambezi Regional Council. Zambezi’s chief regional officer Regina Ndopu-Lubinda and other senior officials’ corruption charges were provisionally withdrawn in the Katima Mulilo Regional Court last month. Magistrate Clara...
A 31-year-old resident of the DRC settlement in Otjiwarongo pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of murder and defeating or attempting to defeat the course of justice before Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen. Lolo Tweumona Kambwela did not give a plea explanation, and opted to remain silent and not divulge the basis of...
Defence counsel Mbanga Siyomunji yesterday had Anti-Corruption Commission investigator Andreas Kanyangela under fire during his cross-examination. This was during a bail application lodged by Fishrot accused Tamson Hatuikulipi (43), one of the accused in the Fishrot scandal. Siyomunji accused Kanyangela of insinuations and vague suggestions, instead of providing factual evidence. He said bank statements provided...
Northern-based magistrate Walter Mikiti, who was charged with insurance fraud, was acquitted this afternoon on all charges by Windhoek High Court Judge Eileen Rakow.Photo: Contributed
OMUTHIYA – Police in the Oshikoto region arrested a 38-year-old woman after she was allegedly found in possession of illicit goods worth N$44 600. Namibian Police Force (NamPol) regional commander Theopoline Kalompho-Nashikaku said the arrest occurred at the Oshivelo check point around 12h00 last Thursday after the woman was found in possession of ‘Yes’ cigarettes,...
Iuze Mukube The murder and arson trial of Mecthilde Karomo (32) was allocated to Windhoek High Court judge Claudia Claasen on Thursday by Deputy Judge President Hosea Angula. The trial was set down for 24 November 2024 on Judge Claasen’s case management roll to determine possible trial dates. Karomo faces charges of arson and two...
A 35-year-old man from Hochfeld in the Okahandja district was convicted of rape on Friday by Regional Magistrate Selma Sibeya in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court. Sibeya convicted Andreas Mouton on one count of rape. He was charged with raping a 30-year-old woman who has the mindset of a three-to-five-year-old. Mouton pleaded not guilty and proffered...
A former police officer was convicted of the rape of his biological daughter by Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen yesterday. The judge further convicted the man – who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim – of incest. She, however, acquitted him on three counts of child trafficking, and one count...