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Zambian court finds 10 public health workers have case to answer

Xinhua, April 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

A court in Zambia on Friday found 10 public workers from the Ministry of Health with a case to answer and put them on their defense in a corruption scandal that shocked the ministry.

Lusaka Magistrate Exnobert Zulu found the 10 with a case to answer on 66 of the 67 counts they were charged with.

The accused will commence their defense on May 3, according to a statement released by the country's anti-corruption watchdog, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

The public workers were arrested in 2009 following the unearthing of a scam involving corruption, theft and money laundering at the Ministry of Health.

They were charged with 67 counts of corruption, theft and money laundering.

The discovery led to some donors such as Sweden stopping funding health programs in the southern African nation. Endit