By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
A Senior Kampala City Lawyer has been arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court today Friday, 28th June, 2024 and remanded to Luzira on Charges of Electronic Fraud and Money Laundering.
Fugitive Kato Absolom of M/s KAAB Advocates who was arrested on Monday, 24th June, 2024 by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit having eluded arrest since last year has been remanded until 13th July, 2024.
According to the Charge Sheet, the accused together with others at large, between July 2022 and April 2023 unlawfully made communication through a computer network and obtained USD286,910 from Qatar investors, Ascend Group as performance security fees for a non existing contract by Government of Uganda.
The fraudsters purported the same for the construction of six technical model schools in Wakiso, Kasanda, Pader, Garuga, Nampungwe and Busunju where as not.
The scheme involved a fabricated 120M dollar contract allegedly for Technical schools in Uganda supposedly under the auspices of the National Resistance Movement Party.
The scam was perpetuated by individuals who masqueraded as senior NRM Party officials.
Key figures included Mike Mutebi who presented themselves as members of NRM Committees, and David Mugabe, a fabricated chairman who guided the Ascend Group through the fraudulent process.
He had been hiding in Turkey and Nairobi but quietly sneaked back into the country with the intention of living a low-key quiet inconspicuous life and all his known telephone numbers had been switched off.
However, security agencies had been monitoring his movements leading to the Monday arrest.
