The Chief Resident Magistrate Court sitting in Lilongwe has found businessman Zameer Karim with a case to answer.

High Court Judge Patrick Chirwa, sitting as a Chief Resident Magistrate made the ruling in Lilongwe on Thursday.

This means that Karim, owner of Pioneer Investments should enter defence in a case in which he is accused of forging documents to acquire a K150 million loan at Ecobank to supply food rations to the Malawi Police Service (MPS).

However, the court acquitted his co-accused Victoria Chanza, an Ecobank senior employee.

The case has been adjourned to a later date.

The Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Karim for allegedly being involved in the procurement of K2.7 billion police food rations whose tender Pioneer Investments won in 2015.