By Chisomo Phiri
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Acting Director General (ADG) Hillary Chilomba has confirmed the arrest of eight immigration officers and two civilians at the Lilongwe office of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services over alleged corrupt practices in relation to issuance of passports.
Chilomba says, the Immigration department carried out investigations into alleged corrupt practices and established that people were paying K200 000 on top of the K50 000 passport fee to access the passport.

He says some of the suspects were found with huge sums of money. One of the suspects had K2.5 million which he could not account for.
According to Chilomba, one of those arrested is an inspector at the Lilongwe office.
He says investigations are still ongoing adding ACB will also do investigations in other Immigration offices.
In the meantime, individuals who have illegally paid immigration officers to expedite their passport processing are encouraged to report these incidents to the authorities.