{"id":24400,"date":"2022-06-18T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba"},"modified":"2022-06-18T20:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T20:53:59","slug":"castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba","title":{"rendered":"Castel Malawi boss fined K1 million over Chamba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A court in Blantyre has ordered Castel Malawi Limited Managing Director, 60-year-old Herve Milhade, to pay a K1 million fine for cultivating Indian Hemp (Chamba).<\/p>\n<p>Milhade faces a one-year jail term if he fails to pay the money. Blantyre Senior Resident Magistrate Court has handed the ruling today after Milhade and his accomplice Murie Jan, aged 50, pleaded guilty on June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chipofya has told parties involved in the case to appeal if not satisfied with the ruling. The two were arrested on 8 April this year at Milhade\u2019s residence at Kabula Heights in Blantyre.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 59 plants of the hemp which weighed 45 kilogrammes were found at Milhade\u2019s home. The plants were forfeited pursuant to Section 17(6) of the Dangerous Drugs Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. A court in Blantyre has ordered Castel Malawi Limited Managing Director, 60-year-old Herve Milhade, to pay a K1 million fine for cultivating Indian Hemp (Chamba). Milhade faces a one-year jail term if he fails to pay the money. Blantyre Senior Resident Magistrate Court has handed the ruling today after Milhade and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,371,1218,1552,4815,234],"class_list":["post-24400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-castel-malawi","tag-chamba","tag-indian-hemp","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Castel Malawi boss fined K1 million over Chamba - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A court in Blantyre has ordered Castel Malawi Limited Managing Director, 60-year-old Herve Milhade, to pay a K1 million ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Castel Malawi boss fined K1 million over Chamba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A court in Blantyre has ordered Castel Malawi Limited Managing Director, 60-year-old Herve Milhade, to pay a K1 million ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-18T20:00:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-18T20:53:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_1-62ae3b287523a.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1040\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Castel Malawi boss fined K1 million over Chamba\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-18T20:00:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-18T20:53:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\"},\"wordCount\":142,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_1-62ae3b287523a.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Castel Malawi\",\"Chamba\",\"Indian Hemp\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/castel-malawi-boss-fined-k1-million-over-chamba\",\"name\":\"Castel Malawi boss fined K1 million over Chamba - 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