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LILONGWE， Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- The High Court in Lilongwe， Malawi， Tuesday sentenced former Justice Minister， Raphael Kasambara， to a 13-year jail term for conspiring to murder the country's former Budget Director， Paul Mphwiyo.


The Lilongwe High Court Judge， Justice Michael Mtambo， on July 21 found the former minister guilty and two others， former Malawi Defense Force officer MacDonald Kumwembe and business person Pika Manondo， guilty of conspiracy to murder， and attempted murder of Phwiyo.


Manondo and Kumwembe have been respectively sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for attempted murder and 11-year imprisonment for conspiring to murder the former Budget Director.


The two's sentences are to run consecutively， meaning that Manondo and Kumwembe will each spend 26 years behind bars.


Kasambara， a renowned lawyer and trainer， and the two were arrested after they were implicated in the shooting of former Budget Director， Mphwiyo， at the gates of his residence in Lilongwe on the night of August 13， 2013.


The former Budget Director was air-lifted to South Africa where he underwent a successful surgery before he came back for a long legal battle against his assailants.


Mphwiyo's shooting unraveled the historic plunder of public funds in Malawi known as cashgate that saw hundreds of billions of kwacha go into the pockets of some civil servants.


Meanwhile over ten men and women have been convicted of cashgate and they are currently serving jail terms while over 70 cases of cashgate are yet to be heard by court.


The former Budget Director too was arrested in 2014 on charges of money laundering， theft and conspiracy to defeat course of justice.


His wife， Thandie Mphwiyo， was also charged with money laundering and theft and their cases are still in court.

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Los Angeles - Police searched Saturday for a shooter who killed five people at a shopping mall in the US state of Washington in the latest chapter of America's epidemic of gun violence.


The gunman opened fire with a rifle in the makeup section of a Macy's department store Cheap Hydro Flask 32oz Wide Mouth W Straw Lid Pink Australia , killing four women and a man, police said.


The FBI office in Seattle said it had no evidence the shooting was terrorism-related.


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A weapon was recovered at the store in Burlington, a town of about 8 Cheap Hydro Flask 24oz Standard Mouth Black Australia ,000 people some 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of Seattle.


Police released screen-grab photos of the suspect from mall security camera footage to help the public identify him.


""I don't know what his motivation was to do this,"" Chris Cammock Cheap Hydro Flask 21oz Standard Mouth W Sport Cap Pacific Blue Australia , police chief in the larger nearby town of Mount Vernon, told a news conference. ""But I certainly plan to find out through the investigation Cheap Hydro Flask 21oz Standard Mouth Mint Green Australia , to the best of our ability.""


He said police were not looking for anyone else as part of their probe.


Burlington Mayor Steve Sexton's voice trembled as he noted that the randomness of gun violence in America -- which causes an estimated 30,000 deaths a year -- had hit his small town.


""This was a senseless act Cheap Hydro Flask Coffee 20oz Blueberry Australia , the world knocking on our doorstep. It came to our little community,"" Sexton said.


Police provided a still from video surveillance of the suspect showing only his head and torso Cheap Hydro Flask 18oz Standard Mouth Red Australia , though the full picture, published by local media Cheap Hydro Flask 12oz Kids Wide Mouth Lemon Yellow Australia , showed him holding what appeared to be a rifle.


The shooting came amid fierce debate in America over gun control laws. It is a hot issue on the campaign trail ahead of the November 8 presidential election.


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