GBM jailed!
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• FORMER Defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba (in spectacles) being led out of court
by police officers after he was jailed yesterday. Picture by HENRY CHUNZA

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE –
FORMER Defence minister Geoffrey Mwamba commonly known as GBM has been sentenced to five years in prison with hard labour for being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime, conflict of interest and money laundering.
Lusaka Magistrate Sanford Ngobola sentenced Mwamba to five years in each of the 13 counts but said, the sentences would run concurrently meaning he would only serve five years effective yesterday.
In count nine, he was fined K50,000.
He convicted Mwamba in eight counts of conflict of interest, four counts of being in possession of property suspected to be proceeds of crime and one count of money laundering.
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