Anti-corruption authorities to investigate Zambia’s finance minister over cash-counting video

By NOEL SICHALWE
Associated Press

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Zambian anti-corruption authorities say they will investigate after a video on social media allegedly showed the country’s finance minister receiving piles of cash from a Chinese businessman. Finance Minister Stanley Kakubo resigned on Tuesday but denied wrongdoing and said he had stepped down because he didn’t want the issue to be a distraction for the government. He didn’t deny he was one of the people in the video but said there had been “malicious claims over a business transaction between my private family business and our business partner.” Kakubo has been accused of receiving $200,000 and a Mercedes-Benz car in the deal. The Anti-Corruption Commission said it would investigate.