THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday ordered three senior officials with subsidiary companies of the defunct Acacia Mining to pay 1.5bn/- compensation to the government for tax evasion.
Senior Resident Magistrate in Charge Godfrey Isaya gave such order against Deodatus Mwanyika, Asa Mwaipopo and Alex Lugendo after convicting them of the offence on their own plea of guilty.
Such offences includes conspiracy to commit offences, leading organized crime, forgery of documents, uttering false documents, corrupt transaction, tax evasion of 918,464,427 US dollars (about 1.8tril/-) and money laundering totalling 3,791,194,540 US dollars (7.4tril/-).
According to the prosecution, the accused persons committed the offence on diverse dates between May 16 and December 31, 2008 at various places in Tanzania, in particular, Dar es Salaam, Kahama District in Shinyanga Region and Biharamulo District in Kagera Region.
The court heard that jointly and together, by their wilful acts, the three officials of the mining companies made false statement to Commissioner General of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) with intent evade to pay 9,309,600 US dollars, being corporate tax payable to the Authority.
