The High Court in Blantyre has thrown out a K30 billion compensation claim by Tayub Rashid and Transglobe Produce Export Limited for loss of business and false imprisonment in the infamous maizegate scandal on technical grounds.
Tayub and Transglobe had applied to the court to force the government pay them in excess of K30 billion t for loss of business and arbitrary arrest in connection with a maize importation from Zambia deal gone sour which saw former minister of Agriculture George Chaponda lose his cabinet portfolio.
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