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Court Jails Ugandan Govt Official, Orders Him To Pay $5.4m

kunle kunle by kunle kunle
January 11, 2024
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Court Jails Ugandan Govt Official,  Orders Him To Pay $5.4m
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A Ugandan anti-corruption court Friday sentenced a government official to 40 years in prison and ordered him to pay $5.4 million in compensation for looting a donor-funded programme to help rebuild the country’s conflict-battered north.

Godfrey Kazinda was accused of embezzling $26.4 million from a scheme funded by the governments of Ireland, Sweden and Denmark to help northern Uganda recover from the ravages of a decades-long insurgency by the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army.

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A former accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister, Kazinda was found guilty of “the offences of illicit enrichment, forgery, causing financial loss and conspiracy to commit felonies”, Justice Margaret Tibulya said, sentencing him to 40 years in jail.

“You are ordered to compensate the government to a tune of 19,171,476,505 shillings,” she added.

 

The government has also seized Kazinda’s properties, including a 20-room mansion valued at one million dollars, as well as four luxury sports cars worth $218,000, court documents showed.

Kazinda used the proceeds to fund a life of luxury, living in a suite at the Sheraton Kampala for about 10 months at one point and travelling to high-end tourism destinations all over the world.

Police also found huge amounts of foreign currency stashed away while conducting a search of one of his Kampala properties, including GBP 200,000 ($273,700, 233,550 euros) in cash.

Friday’s ruling follows a protracted nine-year legal battle.

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