{"id":36933,"date":"2022-12-23T00:35:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons"},"modified":"2022-12-23T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T09:34:17","slug":"dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","title":{"rendered":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 million which were issued to some politically exposed persons (PEPs).<\/p>\n

About K71,603,789 million has since been written off, according to sources within the Ministry of Finance who fear that the execution of the debt cancellation was illegal as it did not have blessings from the.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Zambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 million which were issued to some politically exposed persons (PEPs). About K71,603,789 million has since been written off, according to sources within the Ministry of Finance who fear that the execution of the debt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,248],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-36933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nDBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\"},\"wordCount\":88,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\",\"name\":\"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS - Zambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":473,\"caption\":\"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/\",\"name\":\"Zambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS - Zambia","description":"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS","og_description":"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","og_site_name":"Zambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":473,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS","datePublished":"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons"},"wordCount":88,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Zambia","Zambia"],"articleSection":["all news","economy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons","name":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS - Zambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-23T00:35:50+00:00","dateModified":"2022-12-23T09:34:17+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"THE Development Bank of Zambia (DBZ) has started a process of writing off \u201cnon-performance\u201d loans amounting to K693.5 mi ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1671743172.40.jpg","width":720,"height":473,"caption":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/dbz-moves-to-writeoff-k693-5m-in-loans-issued-to-politically-exposed-persons#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DBZ MOVES TO WRITEOFF K693.5M IN LOANS ISSUED TO POLITICALLY EXPOSED PERSONS"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/","name":"Zambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}