By Nanteza Ruth Walusimbi
KAMPALA
A Sudanese gold Businessman who has been in Uganda since 2024, but maintains he only speaks Arabic of Khartoum was on Wednesday 11th November 2026 remanded to Luzira prison until 2nd December 2026, when the Anti-corruption Court will secure an Arabic interpreter to translate fraud charges to him from English which he says he doesn’t understand at all.
Presiding Judge, Jane Okuo Kajuga had brought a Court orderly who speaks Arabic of Juba (Kinubbi) but the accused person, Yassin Alzin Abdalla who even has a Ugandan English speaking Lawyer, Evans Ochieng told Court that he only speaks Arabic of Khartoum not Arabic-Juba.
His language misbehavior amazed Justice Kajuga who despite expressing her doubts; said she would respect the Constitution which guarantees that an accused person has a right to be tried in the language he or she understands best.
It is against this background that the Judge, together with the Prosecutor Kato Bob from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and the accused person’s Lawyer Evans Ochieng agreed to adjourn the hearing of this case to 2nd/December/2026, so that an interpreter of the accused’s language can be got from the Sudanese Embassy.
The 37 year old Sudanese gold businessman with intent to defraud, is alleged to have obtained over 5 million US Dollars from Al Noblaa Advanced Trading LLC, a gold trading company in Dubai; by falsely claiming that he was selling, processing and exporting 558 kilograms of gold to the said Company whereas not.
It is further alleged that he laundered part of the money 150,191 US Dollars for purposes of concealing the illicit origin of the money to purchase a Toyota Land Cruiser ZX model 2023.
He is facing charges of Obtaining Money by False Pretence and Money Laundering which he allegedly committed between November/2024 and December/2025 in several places in Kampala Central and Wakiso Districts.
