Lilongwe Police Station is keeping in custody a 28-year-old man who was intercepted at Bwemba Roadblock after he illegally transferred K165 thousand from a mobile money agent to his phone before bolting on his vehicle at Likuni on Tuesday, October 24, 2025.
The suspect has been identified as Paul Chirwa.
On the said day at around 14:00 hours the suspect, driving a Toyota Corolla registration number BU 2017 approached a mobile money agent who was plying his business along the Likuni-Chinsapo Road seeking services.
He told the agent to make money transfers to three different accounts.
While the agent was busy completing the transfers, the suspect planted his eyes on the agent’s phone, paying much attention to know the transaction’s password so that he later accomplish his mission.
The suspect later requested the agent’s cellphone saying that he wanted to call a friend claiming that his, was running battery low.
This is when he made a K165 thousand transfer to his phone, and quickly made a withdraw by sending the amount to an agent code.
After handing over the gadget, he left the place on his car heading Lilongwe Town.
When the agent later realized that money value was illegally transferred by the suspect, he made efforts to inform police officers who were manning Bwemba Roadblock for his arrest.
During interrogation at Lilongwe Police, the suspect revealed that the incident is a third in row in three weeks after he also swindled mobile money agents at Njewa and Bunda in Lilongwe.
Paul Chirwa who hails from Kadula Village, Traditional Authority Mulonyeni in Mchinji District, will appear in court soon to answer theft charges.
CREDIT
Inspector Hastings Chigalu
*Lilongwe Police PRO