“Assessing the Legal and Policy Redress of the Challenges and Complexities of Asset Recovery as well as Property Forfeiture in Developing
Jurisdictions: A Case of Corruption and Money Laundering in Zambia.”
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Research Proposal submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of
Doctorate Degree in Law: Financial/Economic Crimes Law & Policy
Proposed Research Topic:
“Assessing the Legal and Policy Redress to the Challenges and Complexities of Asset
Recovery as well as Property Forfeiture in Developing Jurisdictions: A Case of
Corruption and Money Laundering in Zambia.”
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Name of Candidate: Adv. Justine Sipho Chitengi
Student No.: 2925556
Proposed Program: Doctorate in Law
Proposed University: To be advised
Faculty: To be advised
Proposed Supervisor: To be advised
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Declaration
I declare that “Assessing the Legal and Policy Redress of the Challenges and
Complexities of Asset Recovery as well as Property Forfeiture in Developing
Jurisdictions: A Case of Corruption and Money Laundering in Zambia.” is my
own original work, that it has not been submitted for any degree or examination in
any other university, and that all the sources I have used or quoted have been
indicated and acknowledged by complete references.
Justine Sipho Chitengi
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©October 2011
The applicant, formerly a lecturer of Business Associations Law and the Law of Contract at the
University of Zambia and Assistant Dean /Lecturer of Employment Law and Administrative Law at the
University of Lusaka, Law School in Zambia, is an Alumnus and Scholar of the prestigious DAAD
German- South African Centre of Excellency (class of 2009). His qualifications include: LLM
Structured (UWC, RSA in co-operation with HU, Germany); LLB with merit (UNZA, Zambia); BSc.
Forestry (CBU, Zambia); PGCert Contracting & Entrepreneurial Training Programme (Northlink
College, RSA); PGCert Legal practitioners Qualifying Examinations (ZIALE, Zambia); Lawyers„
Continuous Professional Development Certificate in Conveyancing (LAZ, Zambia); Advocate of the
High Court for Zambia (AHCZ); and Conveyancing Lawyer/Conveyancer of the High Court (Zambia).
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Ten Key Words
(i) Asset Recovery
(ii) Corruption
(iii)Economic Crimes Jurisdiction(s)
(iv) Financial Havens
(v) Forfeiture in Persona
(vi) Forfeiture in Rem
(vii) Money Laundering
(viii) Offshore Banks/Corporations
(ix) Property Forfeiture
(x) State Sovereignty/ Immunities
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Abbreviations
All ER: All England Law Report
AMLA: Anti-Money Laundering Authority
AU: African Union
BOZ: Bank of Zambia
Cap: Chapter
CC: Constitutional Court (South Africa).
Crim L.R: Criminal Law Report
DEC: Drug Enforcement Commission
Ed(s): Editor(s)
EU: European Union
FATF: Financial Action Task Force
GDP: Gross domestic product
GwG: Geldwäschegesetz.
HC(Z): High Court for Zambia
ISS: Institute of Social Security
NCC: National Constitution Commission
NGO: Non-Governmental Organisations
OAS: Organisation of American States
OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development
PPMLA: Prohibition and Prevention of Money Laundering Act
SADC: Southern Africa Development Commission
SCZ: Supreme Court of Zambia
SSP: Subordinate Court Principal Registry
STR(s): Suspicious Transaction Report(s)
UBZ: United Bank of Zambia
UN: United Nations
UNCAC: United Nations Convention against Corruption
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
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Abstract
With the increase in the sophistication of the world economy as a result of
globalisation, has dawned the corresponding sophistication and complexities of
techniques employed by perpetrators of financial and economic crimes. In essence
and cardinal to dawning is the “next to impossible” possibility of recovering the
assets and/or forfeiting the properties from perpetrators after a successful conviction.
There are so many legal and policy issues surrounding the notion of asset recovery
and property forfeiture that are adjudicated as proceeds of crime. Among them is the
controversial economic system of financial havens in the Cayman Islands and
offshore corporations in certain developed jurisdictions that shield proceeds of crime
stashed on their soils by perpetrators from other countries. These shielding
jurisdictions take advantage of the international legal concepts such as state
sovereignty and state immunities to derive economic benefits from the said illegal
proceeds stashed in their jurisdictions at a greater expense to the citizenry of victim
states. Another contributing factor is the conflict of laws in enforcing foreign
judgements to recover and/or forfeit property and offshore bank accounts held by
perpetrators in foreign. Indeed, developing jurisdictions such as Zambia have faced
this legal challenge as evidenced in the failure to register the infamous London
Judgement against the late former Head of State, Dr. F.T.J. Chiluba.1 Posterity
indicates that recovery of assets or forfeiture of property across international borders
remains a big challenge to other developing countries apart from Zambia.2 This
challenge is worsened by the fact that recipient countries/financial havens are usually
not keen to cooperate with the victim countries as they benefit from the ploughing of
the illegal monies into their economy. In this regard, many financial haven countries
require and insist that as precondition to rendering any form of assistance or
cooperation to the victim countries, the victim countries must prove that the assets or
property that is a of recovery or forfeiture, respective, were not lawfully obtained.
This requirement of proof is deliberately a difficulty one devised by the safe havens to
simply protect the perpetrator fugitives in their territories in exchange for induced
investment of the dirty proceeds in their economic system at the expense of the victim
1 Attorney General of Zambia for and on behalf of the Republic of Zambia (Claimant) v Meer Care & Desai (a
firm) & Others [2007] EWHC 952 (Ch). 2 As espoused by the House of Lords in the 2008 London Judgment against Zambia‟s second Republican
President, Dr. Chiluba. Available from the Attorney General‟s Chambers, Lusaka.
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countries. Posterity has shown that certain safe havens have accorded protection to
fugitive perpetrators together with their looted property and assets. It is a notorious
fact and common parlance in public domain in Zambia that for the over 8 years
Zambia’s former Chief of Intelligence Service, Xavier Chungu, had been living in
Belgium as a fugitive evading economic crime cases pending against him in Zambian
Courts. Yet the Zambian Government could not lay hands on him or his assets or
properties for alleged fear of upsetting diplomatic ties and the existing cordial
relations between the two countries. The prosed research would look at the feasibility
of having the UN compel safe havens that are member states to not only to reject; but
also to criminalise unexplained and suspicious increases in the wealth of public
officials from other countries who are trying to be fugitives and/or investors in their
countries. This will be in line with the stipulations of UNCAC’s article 203
consolidated by article 31(8) which provides for confiscation of such unexplained
wealth by a public official who cannot explain the lawful source of his/her wealth.
Caution must, however, be taken because such steps may be alleged to be
unconstitutional for contravening article 194 which guarantees Zambian citizens to
own property. Another legal and policy complexity associated with international
Asset Recovery and Property forfeiture is the sophistication, sensitivity and delicacy
of the organised economic crimes, generally. In most cases economic crimes usually
involve organised structures of Government institutions interacting across sectors
and amongst former leaders who are still constant companions of the chief(s) in the
Government. Furthermore, asset recovery and property forfeiture are very costly and
time consuming processes.5 They both involve forensic accountants, lawyers, and
other relevant experts whose services are extremely expensive to hire; in addition to
the expenses of translators, travel expenses and expert witnesses’ allowances inter
alia. Like most young democrats in developing countries, Zambia had been excited
about the fight of graft and ended up investing so much money in the cause that has so
far yielded only a handful of convictions whose recovery and/or forfeiture has been
critically termed a “futile shoot in the dark” as the cost-benefit analysis falls against
litigation.6Having realised these associated huge costs of litigation, perpetrators are
3 See J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, The Recovery of Stolen Assets: A Fundamental Principle of the UN
Convention against Corruption (2007) U4 Brief, Vol. 2, Basel, pp 3- 4. 4 Cap 1 of the Laws of Zambia 5 J. Smith M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 2 6 See the editorial comment by the Post Newspaper editor-in-chief, 24 October 2009.
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readily willing to outspend the government using proceeds of the same being
threatened of recovery and/or forfeiture. Perpetrators of financial and economic
crimes are indeed ready to go an extra mile in their spending to protect their illicit
riches from being taken away from them. Usually, they are even prepared and
“...prefer to be put behind bars and keep their money than to stay free without the
money.”7
7 Per Gaspare Motolo (former Mafia don) cited with authority in J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, at 2.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Ten Key Words
Abbreviations
Abstract
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Scope and Extent of Research
1.3 Problem Statement
1.4 Research Objectives
1.5 Research Question
1.6 Research Significance/Justification
1.7 Literature Review
1.7.1 Challenges and Complexities of Asset Recovery and/or Property Forfeiture
1.7.2 A Brief Survey of the laws governing forfeiture of Property in Zambia
1.7.2.1 The Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act
1.7.2.2 The Prohibition and Prevention of Money Laundering Act
1.7.2.3 The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act
1.7.3 A Critique of the Laws Governing Property Forfeiture in Zambia
1.8 Research Methodologies
1.9 Proposed Research Structure
2.0 Conclusions/ Proposed Law Reforms
3.0 Bibliography
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1.0 Introduction
As postulated by the learned authors Mark Pieth, Jack Smith, and Guillermo Jorge,
“[A]n asset recovery action is one of the most complex projects in the field of law....”8
This complexity has created a dilemma in the fight against economic crimes; with the
situation perpetuated further by the fact that “[T]here is no large body of practitioners
with substantial expertise in this area either inside or outside governments”9
especially in developing countries. In the recent past, the legal scene all over the
world has witnessed a commendable and apluadable wind of change in the fight
against financial and economic crimes; particularly corruption and money laundering.
There have been concerted efforts among industrialised, semi-developed and
underdeveloped economies with financial investigators tracing stolen assets, forensic
accountants unravelling complex transactions and attorneys skilled in multi-
disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional litigation instituting full- fledged litigations
aimed at curbing financial and economic crimes by curtailing perpetrators from
enjoying the proceeds of crime. These efforts have been due to the proliferation
of a novel branch of law known as “financial and economic crimes law.”
This branch of law has in turn formulated the principles, concepts techniques,
characteristics, steps and mechanisms aimed not only at preventing the commission of
the heinous financial economic crimes; but also the identification, tracing and seizure
of proceeds of crime.
Overall, this branch of is spearheaded by the appreciation of the need for a law aimed
at guaranteeing effective results in combating the aforementioned crimes especially
the crimes of corruption, organized crime and money laundering; inter alia. World-
over, this appreciation, buttressed by the need for scrutiny on the international
markets following the opening of trade borders via the 1990s‟ liberalised economy
philosophies, prompted and propelled the growth of this branch of law. By the late
1990s, a global frenzy to combat corruption and money laundering swept through
almost all the nations of the world and landed at fore of the legal scene in all major
jurisdictions. Its agenda was brewing in courtrooms, NGO offices, legislatures and
newsrooms in most of the regional legal groupings such as the SADC; OAS; and EU;
inter alia. For the industrialised and semi-developed jurisdictions, this branch of law
8 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, at 2 9 ibid
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has continued to gain grounding and getting more entrenched in their domestic legal
systems as evidenced in the forceful and successful national and regional legislations
which is vigorously enforced stricto sensu. In Zambia, this was evidenced in the
prompt enactment of the Prohibition and Prevention of Money Laundering Act
(hereinafter referred to as “the PPMLA.”10
Unfortunately, in the third-world Africa, this fledgling movement to combat financial
and economic crimes has largely stagnated owing to three major factors militating
against it namely; first, the legal challenges associated with the unique and
complexities of the nature of sanctions in this new branch of law different from the
conventional and traditional sanctions of criminal law as enunciated in the Zambian
case of The People v De Souza and Others11
as well as the Botswana case of The State
v Kabelo Nketso.12
Secondly, the tolerance and condoning of corrupt practices and
money laundering as acceptable methods of conducting business deemed to contribute
to the emancipation of the concerned countries‟ economy,13
with their long term
detriments seldom and pragmatically recognised because of the high poverty levels in
Africa;14
and thirdly, lack of political by most governments to combat financial and
economic crimes as most government officials are themselves the main culprits in this
branch of crime.15
For all intents and purposes, the proposed research will restrict itself only to the first
factor namely; the complexities and challenges posed by the unusual nature of the
sanctions hereon practised in a bid to recover or forfeit proceeds of crime.
10 Act No. 14 of 2001. 11 CCR SSP/8/2001, unreported. See also L. Fernandez, “Introduction to the Study of Money Laundering”
Thursday 30 July 2009) Module AML 812, Lecture Materials: The Law Related to Anti- Money Laundering and
Organised Crime, Masters Degree Program, DAAD Center of Excellence, UWC, Cape Town, available with the
author. See also M. Pieth, “Preventing Corruption, a Case Study” in M. Delmas-Marty, M. Pieth et U. Sieber, Les
Chemins de L’harmonisation Pénale: Harmonising Criminal Law (2007), Collection de L’umr de Droit Compare
de Paris, Vol. 15. Universite de Paris, Paris, p 16 12 [1982] 1 122 (Botswana Supreme Court) 13 UBZ Bank‟s closure for alleged money laundering practices by some of its directors and resulting nation-wide
outcry and demonstrations by the citizenry for loss of employment by a substantively large section of society. 14 For instance, poverty levels in Zambia have been pegged at 80%. See Kalinda H.T, “Poverty Reduction Strategy
Paper: Agriculture and Food Security” (2001) Authoritative Paper presented at the CSPR workshop, held at
Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, 14-15 March, 2001, p 2. Available at the Ministry of
Finance (Head Quarters), Lusaka 15 Munyoro J, “Political Will and the Implementation of Anti- Money Laundering Measures: The Zambian
Experience, 2004 to 2006” in C. Goredema (ed), Confronting the Proceeds of Crime in Southern Africa: An
Introspection (May, 2007) ISS Monograph Series No 132, Pretoria, p 86.
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1.1 Research Background
Zambia is a landlocked African country with a population of about 12 million. It is a
country richly endowed with natural resources such as natural vegetation, very fertile
soils, abundant water, and vast deposits of copper, which is the core economic
backbone, as well as relatively large deposits of precious minerals. Notwithstanding
the abundant natural wealth, like most other developing countries, Zambia‟s citizens
are still ranked among the poorest in the world.16
The author opines that situation is
attributable, inter alia, to the rampart commission of economic crimes such as
corruption and money laundering emanating from the concomitant vice of bad
governance. As averred by a Zambian High Court judge, Mr. Justice Anderson
Zikonda, it is inarguable that money laundering is one of the major causes of poverty
in Zambia;17
typical of most developing countries.
It is trite that the problem of economic crimes is, indeed, a universal one as certain
economic crimes such as corruption trigger a negative effect on all sectors of life such
as reduced life expectancy rates; lack of clean and safe drinking water; and
endangered living conditions of the economically-disadvantaged citizenry. By
illustration, the 2002 UNODC revealed about US$600 to US$ 1.8 trillion is laundered
annually throughout the world;18
with the largest chunk being proceeds of corruption
from developing countries. Furthermore, the a Report by the AU estimated US$148
billion to be the average amount of money that African Governments lose annually in
corruption; a figure representing 25% of the continent‟s GDP.
Furthermore, it is reported that following the Tsunami natural disaster of 2004, the
international community gave over US$7 billion in donor aid to the Indonesian
Government for purposes of resettling the victims of the said natural disaster.
Unfortunately, in the Aceh province alone, over 30% of this donor fund was either
laundered of corruptly pocketed by those in power; with other reports estimating that
a quarter of the 50, 000 homes that were built for the victims of the said Tsunami
were below the basic building standards, hence had collapsed in less than 12 months
16 J.S. Chitengi, Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development via Agro forestry: A case of Taungya Technology at
Mwekera (2003) (BSc thesis) Copperbelt University Press, Kitwe, p 1. Available from the Copperbelt University‟s
Library, Kitwe. 17 A. Zikonda, The Role of Lawyers in the fight against Corruption (2005) Paper presented at the Lawyers‟ and
Judges‟ Workshop on Corruption in Lusaka, 11th July 2003, p 3. Available from the High Court for Zambia‟s
Library, Lusaka. 18 Cited in J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 1
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after construction, owing to the fact that the construction contracts were corruptly
awarded to sub-standard contractors who used cheap unskilled labour and low quality
building materials.19
On a plethora of authorities and indeed as evidenced in the cases of United States v
Arvizu20
and Amalgamated Metal Trading Ltd v City of London Police Financial
Investigation Unit & Other,21
even developed countries such as the USA and the UK,
respectively, are also prone to financial and economic crimes and have since fallen
victims to the complexities and challenges of asset recovery and property forfeiture.
However, the major difference between the developed and the developing countries is
that the former have devised and adopted effective strategies and mechanisms of
dealing with the issues of asset recovery and/or property forfeiture22
whereas as the
latter are still struggling with the legal challenges and complexities of dealing with the
subject. For instance, by employing the technical assistance of the G8 coupled with
strategic case planning and management, the US recently spent less than US$1.5 to
recover US$6 billion from the perpetrators of the 1980/90 financial and economic
crimes.23
1.2 Scope and Extent of Research
Financial and Economic crimes Law is a very wide branch of law covering, inter alia,
the law related to organised crime, money laundering, anti-corruption law, cybercrime
law, fraud and embezzlement. For all intents and purposes, the proposed thesis will be
confined to the ambit of asset recovery and property forfeiture in anti-corruption and
money laundering law, with particular emphasis on the Anti- corruption Commission
Act24
and the Prohibition and Prevention of Money Laundering Act25
, respectively.
1.3 Problem Statement
The problem herein is twofold namely;
Firstly, the remedies of Asset Recovery in Anti-corruption law and Property
Forfeiture in Money Laundering Law face a number of challenges and critique from
19 See the Report by the Indonesian Anti-corruption group Gerakan Anti-Kourpsi in J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G.
Jorge, op cit, p 1 20 (00-1519) 534 US 266 (2002) 21 [2003]EWHC 703 (Comm) 22 Ibid 23 The savings-and- loan crisis that ravaged the economy of the USA in the 1980s and 90s as reported in J. Smith,
M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 2 24 Cap 91 of the Laws of Zambia 25 Act No 14 of 2001
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other branches of law; both substantive and procedural; such as Constitutional law,
Criminal Procedure, the Law of Evidence, “Traditional” Criminal Law and Human
Rights Law, inter alia.26
This is attributable to the complex, non-routine and unusual
nature and/or character of these novel remedies. Their unusual characteristics raise a
number of serious legal issues such as:
i) Encroachment of the Constitutional right to privacy;
ii) Reversal of the burden of proof, contrary to criminal procedure law;27
iii) Tramping of the presumption of innocence, contrary to Constitutional law;28
iv) Contravention of the Constitutional right against self-incrimination (Right to
remain silent), contrary to the law of evidence;29
and
v) Contradiction of the traditional (retributive) criminal law sanctions of
imprisonment and fine instead of property confiscation.30
This is also critiqued to be
inconsistent with the constitutionally guaranteed right to own property.
The above contentious issues repeatedly arise in the submissions in opposition by the
defence counsel whenever the Zambian government attempts to recover and/or forfeit
proceeds of crime. Consequently, the conclusions of such trials tend to be mere
academic exercises because after a successful trial, the State subsequently faces very
serious legal challenges and complexities of enforcing judgements touching on asset
recovery or property forfeiture with the ultimate result being a wasted investment of
public funds to obtain a judgement which cannot be enforced. See the case of
Attorney General of Zambia for and on behalf of the Republic of Zambia (Claimant) v
Meer Care & Desai (a firm) & Others,31
which case ended with a conviction of the
former head of state, Dr Chiluba, for the crime of money laundering and its predicate
offence of corruption; yet the proceeds of the said crimes are still stashed a known
26 J.S. Chitengi, “Pertinent Legal Issues and Impediments Fettering the Successful Prosecution of the Crime of
Money Laundering and its Predicate Offences in Zambia: Proposed Reforms” (2009) Masters Degree (LLM)
Research Paper, University of the Western Cape Law Faculty, Cape Town, p 27. 27 Relying on the Swiss Supreme Court Judgement of 27 August 1996, cited in La Semaine Judiciare (1997) p 1 28 As averred by the defence counsel in Aaron Chungu, Richard Sakala and Faustin Kabwe v The People,
Unreported High Court for Zambia Appeal No. 3 of 2008. 29 See the south African case of The State v Manamela [2000] 5 LRC 65 which ought to have been relied upon in
Katele Kalumba v Commissioner of the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), The Attorney General and
Barclays Bank (Z) Ltd, filed in the High Court for Zambia on 9 September 2009, available at the High Court
Principle Registry, Lusaka and reported in the Lusaka Times News at www www.lusakatimes.com/?p=17715 30 L. Fernandez, “Prosecutions and Assets Forfeiture” (8 October 2009) Module AML 812, Lecture Materials: The
Law Related to Anti- Money Laundering and Organised Crime, Masters Degree Program, DAAD Center of
Excellence, UWC, Cape Town, p 2. 31 Op cit. See also J.S. Chitengi, “Pertinent Legal Issues and Impediments Fettering the Successful Prosecution of
the Crime of Money Laundering and its Predicate Offences in Zambia: Proposed Reforms,” op cit, pp 14- 16
(footnotes 62, 67 and 75).
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UK Bank account as the complexities and challenges of asset recovery and money
laundering have made it almost impossible for the Zambian government to act further.
Secondly, there has been a devastating backlog of concluded cases but whose
judgements cannot be readily enforced owing to the lacuna in the law on confiscation
of property in foreign states. This is equally traceable to the issue of conflict of laws.
1.4 Research Objectives
The proposed research will aim at investigating the level of detriment caused by the
complexities of the processes of asset recovery and property forfeiture in Zambia.
Secondly, it aims at identifying the possible legal measures, from the international
regime and legal instruments such as UNCAC32
, the Vienna Convention on Money
Laundering33
and FATF Recommendations,34
which Zambia may adopt and
implement in its domestic laws in a bid to overcome the said complexities and
challenges.
1.5 Research Question
How may the legal challenges and complexities of asset recovery and property
feature, as the core remedies in financial and economic crimes law, be overcome in
the third-world African Countries such as Zambia considering their unique and
complex character coupled with the fact that the heinous practices of corruption and
money laundering are still largely considered to be acceptable modes of livelihood
and condoned business activities in certain developing economies?
1.6 Research Significance/Justification
The significance of the proposed research lies in its pioneering attempt to formulate
and suggest solutions of overcoming the prima facie legal challenges and
complexities of asset recovery and/or property forfeiture. On principle, and indeed on
a plethora of authorities, it is trite that there is urgent need in Africa to devise and
revise workable strategies of reinvigorating and sparking renewed interest in the
stagnant fight against financial and economic crimes by finding a lasting solution to
one of the major challenges in this fight, namely, difficulties of recovering and
forfeiting the proceeds of crime at the end of a successful litigation.
32 United Nations Convention against Corruption (2005), New York 33United Nations Convention on Money Laundering, (1988), Vienna 34 40+8 FATF Recommendations
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Therefore, its justification of the proposed thesis is that it will undertake a research on
the subject matter and make recommendations on the tenable and feasible law reforms
and strategies to ensure an effective legal regime of recovering and forfeiting
proceeds of crime.
1.7 Literature Review
There is a paucity of literature on this subject. A brief review of the same reveals a
number of legal challenges and complexities that impede the successful recovery of
assets and property forfeiture in anti-corruption and anti- money laundering laws,
respectively. These impediments have had a negative effect on the fight against the
heinous financial and economic crimes world- over.35
1.7.1 The Challenges and Complexities of Asset Recovery and/or Property
Forfeiture
Below are some of the identified legal challenges and complexities militating against
the successful recovery of assets and forfeiture of assets in financial and economic
crimes in Zambia that will be tackled in the proposed research:
First and foremost is the challenge of lack of adequately trained experts in the field of
financial and economic crimes law. Indeed, most prosecutors in Zambia have never
had any formal training in dealing with the complexities of stolen asset recovery
and/or property forfeiture. Nevertheless, this challenge is typical of most developing
victim developing countries. As averred by the learned scholars, Mark Pieth et al,
“[M]ost public officials in victim countries have never been trained in these
complexities. Laundered money generally migrates to countries with large financial
centres where the laws are usually more restrictive and complex with higher
evidentiary and procedural standards than those in victim countries.”36
These rigorous
requirements and standards often prove to be too much for poorly skilled prosecutors
in Zambia resulting in failed or frustrated attempts to recover corruptly acquired
assets or forfeit laundered properties.37
35 See J. Madinger, Money Laundering: A Guide for Criminal Investigators (2006) 2nd edn, CRC Publishers,
Florida, p 11. 36 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, at 2. 37 See the F.T.J. Chiluba London Judgement [Foreign Judgement Registration] Case (August 2010), HCZ
Judgement by the Hon. Mr. justice Evans Hamaundu, with Particular reference to the failure by the prosecutors to
register the foreign judgement for purposes of enforcing it in recovering proceeds of crime stashed in London.
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The challenge of conflict of laws in enforcing foreign judgements to recover and/or
forfeit property and offshore bank accounts held by perpetrators in foreign countries is
also one major problem that Zambia faces in this regard.38
Indeed, recovery of assets
or forfeiture of property across international borders remains a big challenge to other
developing countries apart from Zambia. This challenge is worsened by the fact that
recipient countries (financial havens) are usually not keen to cooperate with the victim
countries as they benefit from the ploughing of the illegal monies into their economy.
In this regard, many financial haven countries require and insist that as precondition
to rendering any form of assistance or cooperation to the victim countries, the victim
countries must prove that the assets or property that is a of recovery or forfeiture,
respective, were not lawfully obtained.
This requirement of proof is deliberately a difficulty one devised by the safe havens to
simply protect the perpetrator fugitives in their territories in exchange for induced
investment of the dirty proceeds in their economic system at the expense of the victim
countries. Posterity has shown that certain safe havens have accorded protection to
fugitive perpetrators together with their looted property and assets. It is a notorious
fact and common parlance in public domain in Zambia that for the over 8 years
Zambia‟s former Chief of Intelligence Service, Xavier Chungu, had been living in
Belgium as a fugitive evading economic crime cases pending against him in Zambian
Courts. Yet the Zambian Government could not lay hands on him or his assets or
properties for alleged fear of upsetting diplomatic ties and the existing cordial
relations between the two countries.
The author subscribes to the call by other eminent scholars, on the subject matter, for
the UN to compel safe havens that are member states to not only to reject; but also to
criminalise unexplained and suspicious increases in the wealth of public officials from
other countries who are trying to be fugitives and/or investors in their countries. This
will be in line with the stipulations of UNCAC article 2039
consolidated by article
31(8) thereof which provides for confiscation of such unexplained wealth by a public
official who cannot explain the lawful source of his/her wealth. Caution must,
38 As espoused in the Attorney General of Zambia for and on behalf of the Republic of Zambia (Claimant) v Meer
Care & Desai (a firm) & Others case, op cit. 39 Op cit. See also J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, pp 3- 4.
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however, be taken because such steps may be alleged to be unconstitutional for
contravening article 1940
which guarantees Zambian citizens to own property.
Secondly is the complexity associated with the sophistication, sensitivity and delicacy
of the organised economic crimes. In most cases economic crimes usually involve
organised structures of Government institutions interacting across sectors and
amongst former leaders who are still constant companions of the chief(s) in the
Government. Furthermore, asset recovery and property forfeiture are very costly and
time consuming processes.41
They both involve forensic accountants, lawyers, and
other relevant experts whose services are extremely expensive to hire; in addition to
the expenses of translators, travel expenses and expert witnesses‟ allowances inter
alia. Like most young democrats in developing countries, Zambia had been excited
about the fight of graft and ended up investing so much money in the cause that has so
far yielded only a handful of convictions whose recovery and/or forfeiture has been
critically termed a “futile shoot in the dark” as the cost-benefit analysis falls against
litigation.42
Having realised these associated huge costs of litigation, perpetrators are readily
willing to outspend the government using proceeds of the same being threatened of
recovery and/or forfeiture.43
Perpetrators of financial and economic crimes are indeed
ready to go an extra mile in their spending to protect their illicit riches from being
taken away from them. Usually, they are even prepared and “...prefer to be put behind
bars [incarcerated] and keep their money than to stay free without the money.”44
In the long run, however, the massive investments that Zambia has put in the fight
against graft may yield enormous benefits from recoveries and forfeitures if certain
measures were put in place.45
For instance, after massive investments in this area of
law coupled with the unique practice of contingency fee arrangements and
concessions with properly skilled private prosecutors has proved to be profitable with
40 Cap 1 of the Laws of Zambia 41 J. Smith M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 2 42 See The Post Newspaper, “Editorial Comment” 24 October 2009. 43 Cf: M. Levi, “Criminal Asset Stripping” in A. Edwards and P. Gill (eds), Transnational Organised Crime:
Perspectives on Global Security (2003) Routledge Publishers, London, pp 213- 14. 44 Per Gaspare Motolo (former Mafia don) cited with authority in J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, at 2. 45 The proposed research will investigate the best measures and strategies that Zambia may employ in this regard;
hence the justification, inter alia, to undertake this proposed research.
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more than US$700 million recovered from the illicit bank accounts belonging to the
late former military ruler, Sani Abacha.46
Third is lack of a universally accepted definition of the term „money laundering‟ and
conflicting interpretations and the general issue of conflict of laws.47
For example,
certain countries such as South Africa,48
Germany,49
the US50
and the UK51
, inter
alios, concur with the UNCAC in their practice of relaxed and widened scope of
recovery and/or forfeiture mechanisms. They are not restrained from recovery and
forfeiture of stolen property by some of the more restrictive traditional safeguards of
international cooperation such as the need to prove dual criminality before affecting a
recovery or forfeiture.52
In contrast, Zambia like many other developing countries,
demands that in the process of identifying, tracing and freezing or seizing of proceeds
of crime and property used in the crime, the alleged crime must be a crime as such in
both the victim country and the recipient country. In fact, there is conflict of
postulation by different scholars in Zambia on whether or not the PPMLA indeed
applies the test of dual criminality or single criminality.53
This conflict of laws has
really fettered the efforts by well-intending prosecutors of financial and economic
crimes in Zambia as seen in the London Judgement against Zambia former Head of
State, Dr. Chiluba.
The fourth one concerns the controversies between the routine criminal sanction of
retribution as opposed to the unique and peculiar sanctions of asset recovery and
property forfeiture in the practice of the novel field of financial and economic crimes
law. The field of financial and economic crimes law is relative new to most
developing countries54
such as Zambia, and its sanctions with regard to asset recovery
and property forfeiture are quite strange and diverged from the routine sanctions of
retribution; whereby posing very serious challenges and complexities in the fight
against financial and economic crimes. This is owing to the practice of civil forfeiture
46 See details in J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 2. 47 L.B. Curzon, Dictionary of Law and Margin Commentaries (1997) revised 4th edn, Pitman Publishing Co,
London, p 42. 48Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), 2003 49 Geldwäschegesetz (Money Laundering Act as amended on 8 August 2002) 50Proceeds of Crime Act, 2002 51 Criminal Justice Act 52 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 3. 53 See K.K. Mwenda, Legal Aspects of Banking Regulation: Common Law Perspectives from Zambia (2010)
Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria, p 172. 54 N. S. Okogbule, “Regulation of money laundering in Africa: the Nigerian and Zambian approaches” in Journal
of Money Laundering Control (2007) Vol. 10 No. 4, London, p 16.
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actions being brought against the stolen property itself (In Rem Forfeitures); which
practice is novel and strange to common law jurisdictions such as Zambia as opposed
to other countries such as South Africa and the United States.55
Such practice is
favourable to the fight against financial and economic crimes because, as submitted
by Lovell Fernandez, the standard of proof is lower in civil forfeiture than in criminal
forfeiture as the proof of mens rea is irrelevant under civil forfeiture for it the
property that is being tried and not the perpetrator.56
As such, even the remotest nexus
of the property to the crime is sufficient57
ground to implement either recovery or
forfeiture as the case would be.
However, the practice in Zambia is fundamentally different with legal position being
that, generally, the property that has been seized under the PPMLA for being acquired
or derived from proceeds of crimes can only be forfeited to the State after there has
been a court order to that effect following a [criminal] conviction of the perpetrator.58
By routine, most jurisdictions allow recovery and forfeiture of assets and property if
and when there has been a criminal conviction.59
However, it may not be possible to
secure a criminal conviction, yet there might be a prima facie case of stashed proceed
of crime. For instance, the perpetrator may have died and yet there is overwhelming
evidence and trace of assets or property that they had stolen from the government;60
such proceeds of crime must surely be recovered and/or forfeited. The proposed
research will explore all possible avenues of resolving this particularly controversial
position.
Fifthly, is the challenges associated with diplomatic immunities/relations premised on
the international law doctrine of sovereign and exclusive jurisdictions of certain states
in which the assets and property that are a subject of seizure are located or stashed.61
For instance, the former military dictator of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, attempted to
escape liability for financial and economic crimes, and any other crime for that
matter, by having declared himself as „senator for life‟ so that he could always hide
55 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 3. 56 L. Fernandez, “Prosecutions and Assets Forfeiture” op cit, p 2. 57 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 3. 58 See K.K. Mwenda, op cit, p 195 59 J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 3. 60 Such as the case of the former Nigerian military ruler, Sani Abacha and Mobutu Sese Seko, the fallen dictator
and tyrant of the formerly Zaire 61 Refer to the General Rule on Conflict of Laws, Rules 1-3. See also M. Pieth‟s submissions in the Swiss case of
Mobutu Sese Seko.
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behind the veil of legal- status immunity from prosecution(s). Zambia‟s political
leaders are seemingly falling prey to this hoodwinking yet exposed gimmick as
evidenced in the spirited national debate provoked by the NCC‟s attempt to adopt a
new clause in the draft national constitution to the effect that there should be no crime
of „abuse of office by public officials.‟62
A comparative analysis of developed
jurisdictions shows that by implication and analogy regional efforts in this area are
being advanced positively to the contrary.63
Sixth is lack of political will by most African heads of government to enforce asset
recovery and property forfeiture sanctions for fear of both souring their political ties
with their predecessors, who are the major perpetrators of financial and economic
crimes; and for fear of the same fate befalling them in future upon ending of tenures
of office.64
Indeed, one of the major problems militating against asset recovery and
property forfeiture in Zambia has been lack of political to curb the scourge. As
observed by Mark Pieth et al, this problems seems to be universal and not peculiar to
certain countries only because certain individual who are in governments are
primarily the actual perpetrators, allies of perpetrators or even direct beneficiaries of
financial and economic crimes.65
Lastly is the „sound‟ argument of selective and vindictive prosecutions constituting
the universally condemned practiced of victors‟ justice. This was raised by the
defence counsel in the case of Aaron Chungu, Richard Sakala and Faustin Kabwe v
The People66
as well as in the previous case of the United Bank of Zambia (UBZ) v
Attorney General (2004)67
Nevertheless, a few legislative provisions have made attempts to rectify the situation
and ease the challenges and complexities herein identified,68
above, as evidenced
from the survey below:
62 See The Post Newspaper, 13 August 2010. 63 See the European Commission Money Laundering Directive. 64 See the Chiluba acquittal by the Zambian courts and the subsequent refusal by the High Court to have the
London Judgement registered against him as a result of alleged strong ties he has with the then incumbent
President, Rupiah Bwezani Banda. 65 Cf: J. Smith, M. Pieth, and G. Jorge, op cit, p 1. 66 Op cit 67 This matter was never pursued to trial as the Bank was wound- up just before commencement of trial. 68 See K.K. Mwenda, Anti- Money Laundering Law and Practice: Lessons from Zambia (2005) UNZA Press,
Lusaka.
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1.7.2 A Brief Survey of the laws governing forfeiture of Property in Zambia
In Zambia, the issues of both asset recovery and property forfeiture in the fields of
anti-corruption law and anti-money laundering law, respectively, collectively known
as financial and economic crimes law are covered in a number of legislations.
1.7.2.1 The Dangerous Drugs (Forfeiture of Property) Act
This Act provides for offences in relation to property connected with dangerous
drugs, and the seizure and forfeiture of property, inter alia. For instance, Section 3
criminalises the use of property in the commission of Schedule 1 offences; that is
money laundering and its predicate offences. Equally, sections 4 and 5 prohibit the
concealment of illegal property and provides for the forfeiture of property. Section 26
provides for the seizure of businesses that are used to perpetrate the heinous vice of
money laundering. Furthermore, section 32 proclaims that any forfeited property shall
vest in the State, whereas section 43 provides for seizure of property if requested by a
foreign state.
1.7.2.2 The Prohibition and Prevention of Money Laundering Act69
On the authority of Section 15, property may be seized if there are reasonable grounds
to believe that it is derived from money laundering. Sections 17 and 20 stipulate that
property, which has been seized, may be liable to forfeiture by the court and it shall
vest in the State. Section 19 provides for the monitoring and tracking, that is
surveillance of any property that is reasonably suspected to be used as an
instrumentality in the commission of the crime of money laundering.
1.7.2.3 The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act70
Under this Act, possession of property obtained through trafficking is prohibited and
punishable with imprisonment of up to 10 years.71
Section 24 empowers the relevant
authorities to enter, search and seize property, upon any premises; which property is
liable to forfeiture. The said property must have been used in the commission of a
financial and/or economic crime.72
Furthermore, such forfeiture of property to the
State is only allowed upon a successful conviction.73
69 No. 14 of 2001 70 Cap 96 of the Laws of Zambia 71 Section 21 72 Section 31 73 Sections 34 and 39
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1.7.3 A Critique of the Laws Governing Property Forfeiture in Zambia
Both the Banking and Financial Services Act74
and the Banking and Financial
Services (Bureau de Change) Regulations,75
confer powers on the Bank of Zambia to
act as the Regulatory Authority76
but they do not vest powers on it to seize and forfeit
property derived from proceeds of money laundering. The said powers are, instead,
vested in the security wings of the Government.77
One would expect the opposite to
be the case considering the gist and spirit of advancing positive policy in the national
response to financial and economic crimes as seen in the Bank of Zambia Anti-Money
Laundering Statutory Instrument.78
Research Methodologies
The study will be based on a comparative analysis of the jurisprudence handed down
by courts in the developed countries in comparison and contrast with those from the
developing countries such as Zambia. An attempt will be made to also evaluate the
position obtaining in Germany, the US, Switzerland, the UK, and South Africa on the
one hand; and Zambia on the other. More than this, the desktop research will draw
heavily on international and regional anti-money laundering and anti- corruption
instruments, national legislation within the comparator regions, conference reports,
and the findings of research conducted by the Institute of Security Studies in South
Africa and the OECD in Geneva.
1.9 Proposed Research Structure
The research paper will be divided into four main parts comprising of different
chapters. The first part will deal with preliminary matters of inducement and will
serve as the introduction. The second part will explore and expatiate on the relevant
law applicable to the said issues identified in the first part and will be concerned
mostly with literature review on the success stories from the comparator developed
jurisdictions .
The third part will be an „application‟ part assessing the applicability, to Zambia, of
the laws and strategies employed in the successful comparator jurisdictions; with the
74 Cap 387 of the Laws of Zambia 75 2003 edition 76 Part II 77 See Sections, 3 & 15, inter alia, PPMLA, op cit. 78 No 14 of 2002
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last part constituting of the conclusion and recommendation chapters on how best to
bridge the gaps and lacunae in the law on the subject matter in Zambia.
2.0 Conclusions/Recommendations
The author opines and avers that from the foregoing, and indeed on principle, it is
imperative that solutions to the problem herein stated must be put in place as a matter
of urgency as Zambians are still impoverished and mortality rates are shockingly high
owing to abject poverty of the citizenry; yet national resources that were plundered by
the former regimes(s) still lie unrecovered in off-shore banks and other financial
havens. Inevitably, there is need to simplify the process and legal procedures involved
in the identification, tracing and forfeiture/ recovery of proceeds of crime for the
economic emancipation of the citizenry deeply wallowing in abject poverty. It is a
notorious fact, from the foregoing, that due to the said high levels of poverty coupled
with weak institutional and legal frameworks, there are absolutely no properly trained
experts in Zambia that can adequately handle and mange the complex enterprise of
asset recovery and/or property forfeiture. Equally, there is need to improve the policy
environment in this regard so as to adhere to international norms and dictates of the
United Nations as per the 1991UN Global Programme Against Money Laundering.79
Seemingly, Zambia is not up to date hereon for the fore-identified issues of lack of
political will or total impunity to disregard the implementation of certain positive
Governmental pronouncements.80
79 UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UN-ODCCP), Vienna. 80 See, for instance, Bank of Zambia Anti-Money Laundering Directives, 2004 edition.
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