Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Police with help of the Natural Resources Conservation Network carried out an operation in Pakwach district and arrested Opunya Edwin. He was arrested while in possession of four pieces of Ivory worth 60 million shillings. The 26 year old, an Acholi by tribe was arrested …
Read More »Six Police officers charged over exhibit theft
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Six senior police officers who were arrested two weeks ago for stealing exhibits, have been arraigned before Entebbe Magistrate court on charges of destroying evidence. The former Senior Commandant Aviation Police Lodovic Awita, Senior Superintendent of Police Imoly Nantalis, AIP Micheal Ssemuwemba, Sgt David Owiny …
Read More »Thieves steal radioactive material in Mexico again
Monterrey, Mexico | AFP | Mexican authorities issued an alert Wednesday after thieves stole a piece of academic research equipment containing potentially dangerous radioactive material — at least the seventh such incident here since 2013. The thieves grabbed the nuclear densometer from the back of a truck in a shopping …
Read More »Vision Group Principal Accountant jailed 5 years for theft of 262m
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Former Vision Group Principal Accountant Peter Mubbale has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for stealing 262m shs from his employer. Anti-corruption court Judge Margret Tibulya convicted 60 year old Mubbale yesterday, cancelled his bail and sent him to Luzira prison where he spent the …
Read More »Five Equity Bank employees sentenced over embezzling sh4.6billion
Five employees of Equity Bank – Uganda have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from 5 to 12 years after the Anti-Corruption Court found them guilty of embezzling sh4.6 billion from their employer. Justice Margaret Tibulya has sentenced Abubakar Karungi to 12 years, David Sserwamba and Matthew Keeya have been …
Read More »Secret Service laptop stolen in NY, reportedly with Trump info
Washington, United States | AFP | A laptop was stolen from a US Secret Service agent in New York and remains missing, the agency said in a statement Friday, amid reports that the device contained floor plans of Trump Tower. CNN — citing law enforcement sources in New York — …
Read More »Pension money theft
By Independent Investigations Team CID takes hold of Shs 800bn worth of Oloka, Obey properties, over 256 land titles attached Early one morning last month, one Kenneth Tulomwe was arrested by police as he drove out of his gate in Muyenga in a brand new double cabin pick-up truck he …
Read More »Pension theft figure shoots to Shs150bn
By Independent Team How Godfathers protected main player in the grand theft On Monday, November 28, 2011, a man identified as Benon Byamukama of Kitovu LC I in Mbarara walked into Cairo International Bank main branch on Plot 30 Kampala Road to open a savings account as a member of …
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