[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zim-bob-we's Finance Minister Tendai Biti has filed three separate High Court applications to bar police from obtaining his mobile phone records amid allegations that he is being investigated for alleged fraud.
The police serious fraud squad approached the country's largest mobile phone operator and threatened its managers with arrest if they did not hand over the minister's phone activity, state media reported on Tuesday.
Mr Biti who is also the secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has argued that the release of the phone records would amount to harassment and an infringement of his fundamental rights.
He said he had not committed any offence that would warrant the release of the information.
"I fear that should the respondent (Econet) be bullied into submission, my constitutional right to privacy would be unjustifiably interfered with and in addition, vital information pertaining to the organizations I am heading will be unlawfully accessed," Mr Biti said in one his court applications.
"I am a government minister and a legal practitioner of this honourable court and I have committed no criminal offence.
"I have not been investigated of any offence and the basis upon which the warrant may well have been obtained was clearly false."
Four Ministry of Finance officials were last week tossed in the calaboose but were released on bail on Monday.
The officials are allegedly accused of going on unsanctioned foreign trips and flouting tender procedures.
According to a government paper, the Sunday Mail, one of them Ms Petronella Chishawa was accused of having an extra marital affair with Mr Biti.
The minister denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! and has threatened to sue the newspaper. Zim-bob-wean police have been accused of persecuting President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's opponents.
At the weekend, three government ministers from the smaller from the smaller MDC faction were briefly jugged for allegedly holding an unsanctioned meeting.
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Raided by the "serious fraud squad"?
As opposed to what? The "minor fraud squad" or "frivolous fraud squad"?
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Give it up Bernank, the parrots dead.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that a new stimulus program is in the works that will entail additional asset purchases, the clearest indication yet that the central bank is contemplating another round of monetary easing.
Bernanke said in prepared remarks that the economy is growing more slowly than expected, and should that continue the central bank stands at the ready with more accommodative measures.
"Once the temporary shocks that have been holding down economic activity pass, we expect to again see the effects of policy accommodation reflected in stronger economic activity and job creation," he said
"However, given the range of uncertainties about the strength of the recovery and prospects for inflation over the medium term, the Federal Reserve remains prepared to respond should economic developments indicate that an adjustment in the stance of monetary policy would be appropriate."
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The first round of O'stimulus became a permanent part of the federal budget. So will this one and next year the permanent built in federal budget deficit will become $2 trillion/year.
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"...Another witness for the defense testified that people were getting maced by the police after the beating. She should know. She was the one who got maced because she resisted arrest. Charges were later dropped against the woman. Today she testified that (5′ 9″ 140 pound) Kenneth Gladney started the fight against the two (6′ 4″ 250 pound) SEIU thugs."
not much you can do when the defense has 'witnesses' willing to lie.
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"not much you can do when the defense has 'witnesses' willing to lie"
Wonder how much she was paid?
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file a civil suit. Standard is less, and he certainly suffered economic damages
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