The Radar Scandal: Investigation & Progress

[Katibu Tarafa]

Hawa waingereza hivi hawajui kuwa sheri za tanzania ni kwa ajili ya wale wakina pangu pakavu tia mchuzi.
Tusipoangalia watatuvua nguo hawa,yaana hata hiyo tume ya maadili,pamoja na supika wote hawajaziona fomu za mafisadi na kujua wameandika nini.kweli twafa.
wacha na mimi nisubiri mgao wa mashangigi yanayokuja labda na sisi huku tarafani tukakumbukwa,

 

[SMU]

Hivi upelelezi bado haujaisha? Mbona unachukua muda mrefu? Hapo bado kesi haijaenda mahakamani!

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

Chenge back on the spot over radar deal
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As AG, Chenge is understood to have given certain key advice which ultimately clinched Cabinet approval of the radar purchase at an allegedly-inflated price of 28 million pounds sterling (approx. 56bn/-).

According to THISDAY findings, this advice involved the ’’jurisdiction clause of the Supply and Financing Agreement and Performance Bond’’ related to the transaction, which is believed to have been very crucial to the deal.

Chenge is said to have also given key advice on whether the financing of the radar deal through a commercial loan from Barclays Bank was compatible with Tanzania’s application for debt relief from the International Monetary Fund
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Investigators have been probing allegations that a deposit of more than $1m in Chenge’s offshore bank accounts coincided almost exactly with the time he was advising the government in favour of the radar deal.​

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Thanks Bubu, jamaa hatoki kwenye hii skandali!
Ni kama mfupa uliomkwama mtu kooni, kumeza haweze-kutema hawezi.Nakama waingereze wenyewe wanavyopenda kusema ,wako meticulous.
Hatujamsikia mzee wa vijisenti hewani siku nyingi kidogo lakini yuko mlangoni mwa aibu ya kushitakiwa.
Ana biashara gani ya kudeposit $1million,wacha wapekue mali tuone kama biashara hiyo inalingana na mapatao hayo.Tatizo ni kuwa hayuko peke yake.​

 

[mstahiki]

TANESCO boss linked to radar scandal probe


DR RASHIDI: Allegations date back to his stint as BoT governor. Has declined comment so far.

-Investigators say he received dubious payments from Chenge

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

THE Managing Director of the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) and former governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Dr Idris Rashidi, is being investigated on allegations of corrupt involvement in the military radar purchase scandal, THISDAY can reveal today.

According to our latest findings, detectives from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) have traced a series of suspicious payments from a bank account registered in the name of former attorney-general and senior government minister Andrew Chenge, to one of Rashidi’s bank accounts.

Sources close to the ongoing radar deal investigation say Rashidi received a sum of $600,000 (approx. 800m/-) from Chenge under dubious circumstances in May 1998.

Rashidi, speaking through TANESCO Public Relations Manager Ms Badra Masoud, has declined to comment on the allegations.

The TANESCO boss served as governor of the central bank from 1993 to 1998. Since then, he has served in various capacities for a number of local entities including Vodacom Tanzania Limited, Akiba Commercial Bank, and the National Micro-finance Bank (NMB), before his appointment as head of the power utility.

SFO investigators say Rashidi, being the then BoT governor, was an important figure in the negotiations that led to the allegedly overpriced, $41m (approx. 52bn/-) radar purchase finally being finalized in 2002.

Likewise, local sources familiar with the SFO investigation have described Rashidi as a ’’key figure in the negotiations for financing of the radar.’’

The sources say without the then central bank supremo’s go-ahead on the financing aspects of the deal, it would not have gone through.

At the time the radar negotiations were being conducted between Britain’s leading defence manufacturer company BAE Systems and the third phase government of ex-president Benjamin Mkapa, Chenge was the country’s AG while Rashidi was BoT governor.

Investigators believe that both were ’’pivotal persons of influence over the success of the radar contract.’’ While Chenge, as the government’s chief legal advisor, gave a legal opinion in favour of the deal, Rashidi is believed to have played a similar key role in the financial arrangements of the contract.

The SFO last year made a formal request for assistance from local authorities in its ongoing probe into the military radar scandal, including searches of the homes and offices of at least three key suspects based within the country.

Both Chenge and Rashidi were named amongst these suspects.

The home-based Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has been conducting its own, parallel investigation into the radar deal.

It is understood that the UK fraud investigators are also interested in the banking and financial records of both Chenge and Rashidi, as well as their assets disclosure documents at the Ethics Secretariat.

Negotiations for the purchase of the radar system are understood to have started in a low-key manner way back in 1992, but truly picked up steam after the Mkapa government came into power in 1995.

Investigations by THISDAY have already established that wanted fugitive businessman Shailesh Vithlani was the alleged paymaster of the deal, doling out millions of dollars in illegal kickback payments to senior officials in the third phase government.

It has been confirmed that Vithlani negotiated the bribes with senior government officials and made arrangements for the transfer of the funds from a Swiss bank account.

Vithlani and his former business partner, Tanil Somaiya of the prominent Shivacom Group, held a power of attorney over Envers Trading Corporation, a shadowy company registered in Panama which acted as consultant for BAE Systems in the radar deal.

SFO investigators have uncovered that BAE Systems, through yet another company (Red Diamond Trading Limited), agreed to pay Envers a ’commission’ fee of $12m (approx. 15.6bn/-), equivalent to a staggering 30 per cent or so of the purchase price.

Investigators believe that some of this money was used to grease the palms of a number of senior officials in the Mkapa administration who were involved in approving the radar deal.

 

[Gagnija]

Serikali itajikanyaga kanyaga, na baadaye kuja na hadithi kuwa hawajui Idris yuko wapi.

 

[Bulesi]

Rashid ni rafiki mkubwa wa Somaia na Vithlani kwani hata alipokuwa Akiba Commercial Bank , Somaia ilibidi afanyie transactions zake nyingi pale hata kwenda Vodacom nadhani ilikuwa influence ya Somaia na Rostam!! Siajabu kwamba Rashid anahusika na uhujumu huu kwani akiwa BOT alifanya madudu mengi sana kwa jeuli ya kuwa karibu na Mzee ruksa; mnakumbuka jinsi benki zilivyofilisika?? Meridien Biao, Trust Bank, Greenland Bank all collapsed under the watchful eye of Rashid. Huyu nae ni fisadi aliyekubuhu lakini anajifanya mtu wa sala tano!!

 

[The Khoisan]

Hivi huyu jamaa hajafikia retirement age tu?? Au ndiyo watalaam wachache tulionao. Nakumbuka alipoteuliwa na Mwinyi kuwa Gavana miaaka 17+ alikuwa na miaaka 45 sasa inakuwakuwaje bado anaendelea kupiga mzigo kwenye kampuni ya serikali wakati umri umepita. Au huu umri wa miaka 60 ni wa kwetu walalahoi???

 

[Mtanzania]

Kazi ipo mwaka huu, tuendelee kuwafunga kengere mmoja mmoja. Hawa jamaa na mishahara yao yote mikubwa kiasi hicho bado wanaiba uji wa mgonjwa? AIBU kweli kweli.

Mwaka huu wataadhirika wengi sana. Thisday wanastahili pongezi kubwa sana kwa kuamua kukabiliana na haya majangili.

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

tanesco boss linked to radar scandal probe


dr rashidi: Allegations date back to his stint as bot governor. Has declined comment so far.

-investigators say he received dubious payments from chenge

thisday reporter
dar es salaam

maumivu ya kichwa yanaanza pooole pole!

 

[Lambardi]

duuu na bado tutajasikia memngi sana..........je atabakia mtu kwelii serikalini ????awamu zote 3 balaaa............

 

[Jamco_Za]

Huyu mbona siku nyingi tulishajua kuwa na yeye yupo kwenye mgao wa radar wnzake wakati wanakula na yeye alionja kidogo ndio maana ana vijisumni na sio vijisenti

 

[Alpha]

Majambazi kila mahali.

Lock them up and throw away key, these people deserve no mercy.

😡

 

[Halisi]

Kazi ipo mwaka huu, tuendelee kuwafunga kengere mmoja mmoja. Hawa jamaa na mishahara yao yote mikubwa kiasi hicho bado wanaiba uji wa mgonjwa? AIBU kweli kweli.

Mwaka huu wataadhirika wengi sana. Thisday wanastahili pongezi kubwa sana kwa kuamua kukabiliana na haya majangili.

The TANESCO boss served as governor of the central bank from 1993 to 1998. Since then, he has served in various capacities for a number of local entities including Vodacom Tanzania Limited, Akiba Commercial Bank, and the National Micro-finance Bank (NMB), before his appointment as head of the power utility.

Tumtizame DK. Rashidi kama mdau mmoja wapo wa ule utatu mtakatifu katika sekta ya nishati ambao katikati yao yumo Rostam Aziz.... Wizara ya Nishati na Madini ilianza na Dk. Msabaha, akaja Karamagi, na sasa Ngeleja.... na ujue hawa waliaminika kuwa karibu na Rostam. Ukimuondoa Msabaha ambaye mahusiano yake na RA ni tata kidogo, waliosalia, Karamagi na Ngeleja ni watu wa RA.... Karamagi wanahusiano kupitia TICTS na Ngeleja walikuwa pamoja Vodacom na ndiye aliyemshika mkono kama ambavyo anataka kufanya sasa kwa Bashe. Dk Rashidi amepelekwa pale Tanesco kwa kazi maalumu ya kulinda maslahi ya hao jamaa na kwa kweli ndio maana Ngeleja na Tanesco hawakuwa na la kusema kuhusiana na suala la ununuzi wa mitambo ya Richmond

 

[Ochu]

this guy is the croock na inajulikana... nimuda wake umefika sasa!!!!

 

[Rwabugiri]

Tumtizame DK. Rashidi kama mdau mmoja wapo wa ule utatu mtakatifu katika sekta ya nishati ambao katikati yao yumo Rostam Aziz.... Wizara ya Nishati na Madini ilianza na Dk. Msabaha, akaja Karamagi, na sasa Ngeleja.... na ujue hawa waliaminika kuwa karibu na Rostam. Ukimuondoa Msabaha ambaye mahusiano yake na RA ni tata kidogo, waliosalia, Karamagi na Ngeleja ni watu wa RA.... Karamagi wanahusiano kupitia TICTS na Ngeleja walikuwa pamoja Vodacom na ndiye aliyemshika mkono kama ambavyo anataka kufanya sasa kwa Bashe. Dk Rashidi amepelekwa pale Tanesco kwa kazi maalumu ya kulinda maslahi ya hao jamaa na kwa kweli ndio maana Ngeleja na Tanesco hawakuwa na la kusema kuhusiana na suala la ununuzi wa mitambo ya Richmond

Alaaa kumbeee???

Thanks wana JF kwa kelele zenu na Kamati ya bunge kufanya kazi yenu ipasavyo! bila hivo kumbe ndo tungeisha uvaa mkenge huu.

 

[Halisi]

Radar scandal probe continues: The Chenge-Rashidi connection expounded
-Names of their ’secret’ UK companies revealed

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

BRITISH investigators have identified the names of two private companies, allegedly controlled by former Bank of Tanzania governor Dr Idris Rashidi and ex-attorney general Andrew Chenge, that are linked to dubious payments from the now-infamous military radar purchase scandal.

According to findings by detectives from the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Chenge is believed to control a company known as Franton Investments Limited, which in the period between June 1997 and April 1998 received lump payments amounting to more than $1.5m (approx. 2bn/-).

The funds were wired in seven different transfers to an account held by Franton Investments at the Barclays Bank branch in Jersey Island, which is said to be one of the world’s leading offshore banking centres.

During the period in question, Chenge was still serving as attorney general (AG) in the third phase government of then president Benjamin Mkapa.

SFO investigators further uncovered that in May 1998, a payment of $600,000 (approx. 800m/-) was made from Franton Investments Ltd (controlled by Chenge) to Langley Investments Limited, another company believed to be controlled by Rashidi.

Rashidi served as BoT governor between 1993 and 1998, and along with Chenge has been named as one of the key officials of the Mkapa government who facilitated the apparently overpriced, $41m (approx. 52bn/-) radar purchase which was finalized in 2002.

Rashidi is currently managing director of the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO), while Chenge � who held the post of AG until 2005 � has since gone on to hold a couple of senior ministerial portfolios in the fourth phase government of incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete.

Chenge, however, was forced to resign from the Kikwete government in April last year after first being implicated by SFO investigators in the military radar scandal.

He has personally denied criminal wrongdoing, while Rashidi has declined to make any comment on the matter.

Sources close to the ongoing radar deal investigation say both Chenge and Rashidi did not disclose their offshore bank accounts to the Ethics Secretariat in Dar es Salaam, as required by law.

In fact, investigators claim that Chenge even instructed his financial advisers to send all correspondences regarding his offshore bank account(s) to an address in London, in a suspected bid to conceal the existence of such assets to local authorities back home in Tanzania.

It is understood that the former AG asked his financial advisers to forward all documentation meant for him related to the Jersey bank account, to an address listed as 11 Sidmouth Road, London.

Investigators believe that both the Rashidi as BoT governor and Chenge as AG were ’’pivotal persons of influence over the success of the radar contract.’’

While Chenge, as the government’s chief legal advisor, gave a crucial legal opinion in favour of the deal, Rashidi is believed to have played a similar key role in the financial arrangements of the
contract.

Sometime last year, the SFO made a formal request for assistance from local authorities in its ongoing probe into the military radar scandal, including searches of the homes and offices of at least three key suspects based within the country.

Both Chenge and Rashidi were named amongst these suspects by British investigators.

It could not be immediately established if the home-based Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) is also treating the two prominent local personalities as official suspects in its own parallel investigation into the radar deal.

Wanted fugitive businessman Shailesh Pragji Vithlani has already been decisively named as the alleged paymaster of the radar purchase scandal.

Vithlani is believed to have doled out millions of dollars in bribes to senior officials in the Mkapa administration to approve the dubious deal.

Officials close to the ongoing investigation have confirmed that it was Vithlani who negotiated suspected bribe payments with senior government officials and made arrangements for the transfer of the monies from a Swiss bank account.

Vithlani and his former business partner, Tanil Somaiya of Shivacom Group, are linked to both Merlin International and Envers Trading Corporation, two companies that are alleged to have been used by the UK-based radar-selling firm BAE Systems to help push the deal through by all means.

Investigations have revealed that BAE Systems, through yet another company (Red Diamond Trading Limited), agreed to pay Envers Trading a ’commission’ fee of $12m (approx. 15.6bn/-), equivalent to a staggering 30 per cent of the total purchase price.

It is believed that some of these funds were used to pay the illegal kickbacks to senior officials in the Mkapa government who were involved in the radar deal negotiations.

SOURCE: ThisDay

 

[Mtanzania]

Mkuu halisi,

Hii hali inatisha kabisa, nafikiri ifike mahali mtu apigwe risasi hadharani shauri ya ufisadi. Huwezi kuamini hawa magavana wa BOT ambao wanalipwa pesa nyingi kiasi hicho bado wanaweza kujiingiza kwenye uwizi wa namna hiyo.

Yaani ni AIBU kweli kweli. Nafikiri wakati umefika wa kutunga sheria mpya za kupambana na mafisadi na wakipatikana na hatia basi mali zao zote hata zile walizopata kihalali zifilisiwe.

Hongera sana thisday kwa kazi kubwa mno ya kutuelemisha Watanzania.

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

mkuu halisi,

hii hali inatisha kabisa, nafikiri ifike mahali mtu apigwe risasi hadharani shauri ya ufisadi. Huwezi kuamini hawa magavana wa bot ambao wanalipwa pesa nyingi kiasi hicho bado wanaweza kujiingiza kwenye uwizi wa namna hiyo.

Yaani ni aibu kweli kweli. Nafikiri wakati umefika wa kutunga sheria mpya za kupambana na mafisadi na wakipatikana na hatia basi mali zao zote hata zile walizopata kihalali zifilisiwe.

Hongera sana thisday kwa kazi kubwa mno ya kutuelemisha watanzania.

they should be hanged by the balls!

 

[Sikonge]

they should be hanged by the balls!

Hiyo haiumi sana.
Tuwafilisi mali zao na watoto wao wachukuliwe organs zao na kusaidia wale wenye matatizo ya kiafya. Labda na wao wataona jinsi watoto wa wengine wanavyopata shida. Najua ni unyama, ila ndipo panapouma.
Nimesoma kuwa yule mwana mziki DMX, kwenda jela wala haogopi. Sasa wanataka wamkomeshe kwa usugu wake huo. Akiwa jela atatakiwa kuvaa nguo za rangi ya PINK. Kwake hii itakuwa aibu ya mwaka na kashaanza kulalamika.......

 

[BAK]

Radar scandal probe continues: The Chenge-Rashidi connection expounded

-Names of their 'secret' UK companies revealed

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam​

BRITISH investigators have identified the names of two private companies, allegedly controlled by former Bank of Tanzania governor Dr Idris Rashidi and ex-attorney general Andrew Chenge, that are linked to dubious payments from the now-infamous military radar purchase scandal.

According to findings by detectives from the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Chenge is believed to control a company known as Franton Investments Limited, which in the period between June 1997 and April 1998 received lump payments amounting to more than $1.5m (approx. 2bn/-).

The funds were wired in seven different transfers to an account held by Franton Investments at the Barclays Bank branch in Jersey Island, which is said to be one of the world's leading offshore banking centres.

During the period in question, Chenge was still serving as attorney general (AG) in the third phase government of then president Benjamin Mkapa.

SFO investigators further uncovered that in May 1998, a payment of $600,000 (approx. 800m/-) was made from Franton Investments Ltd (controlled by Chenge) to Langley Investments Limited, another company believed to be controlled by Rashidi.

Rashidi served as BoT governor between 1993 and 1998, and along with Chenge has been named as one of the key officials of the Mkapa government who facilitated the apparently overpriced, $41m (approx. 52bn/-) radar purchase which was finalized in 2002.

Rashidi is currently managing director of the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO), while Chenge ? who held the post of AG until 2005 ? has since gone on to hold a couple of senior ministerial portfolios in the fourth phase government of incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete.

Chenge, however, was forced to resign from the Kikwete government in April last year after first being implicated by SFO investigators in the military radar scandal.

He has personally denied criminal wrongdoing, while Rashidi has declined to make any comment on the matter.

Sources close to the ongoing radar deal investigation say both Chenge and Rashidi did not disclose their offshore bank accounts to the Ethics Secretariat in Dar es Salaam, as required by law.

In fact, investigators claim that Chenge even instructed his financial advisers to send all correspondences regarding his offshore bank account(s) to an address in London, in a suspected bid to conceal the existence of such assets to local authorities back home in Tanzania.

It is understood that the former AG asked his financial advisers to forward all documentation meant for him related to the Jersey bank account, to an address listed as 11 Sidmouth Road, London.

Investigators believe that both the Rashidi as BoT governor and Chenge as AG were ''pivotal persons of influence over the success of the radar contract.''

While Chenge, as the government's chief legal advisor, gave a crucial legal opinion in favour of the deal, Rashidi is believed to have played a similar key role in the financial arrangements of the contract.

Sometime last year, the SFO made a formal request for assistance from local authorities in its ongoing probe into the military radar scandal, including searches of the homes and offices of at least three key suspects based within the country.

Both Chenge and Rashidi were named amongst these suspects by British investigators.

It could not be immediately established if the home-based Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) is also treating the two prominent local personalities as official suspects in its own parallel investigation into the radar deal.

Wanted fugitive businessman Shailesh Pragji Vithlani has already been decisively named as the alleged paymaster of the radar purchase scandal.

Vithlani is believed to have doled out millions of dollars in bribes to senior officials in the Mkapa administration to approve the dubious deal.

Officials close to the ongoing investigation have confirmed that it was Vithlani who negotiated suspected bribe payments with senior government officials and made arrangements for the transfer of the monies from a Swiss bank account.

Vithlani and his former business partner, Tanil Somaiya of Shivacom Group, are linked to both Merlin International and Envers Trading Corporation, two companies that are alleged to have been used by the UK-based radar-selling firm BAE Systems to help push the deal through by all means.

Investigations have revealed that BAE Systems, through yet another company (Red Diamond Trading Limited), agreed to pay Envers Trading a 'commission' fee of $12m (approx. 15.6bn/-), equivalent to a staggering 30 per cent of the total purchase price.

It is believed that some of these funds were used to pay the illegal kickbacks to senior officials in the Mkapa government who were involved in the radar deal negotiations.