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Daily Monitor
Monday May 03 2021
Onlookers scan bullet holes on a special hire car shot in Nansana outside Kampala. PHOTO/ JOSEPH KIGGUNDU
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The link. “Our intelligence officers are on ground profiling all of them. We are duly aware that there are some people who were benefiting. they sponsor them to do these acts for economic gain, and we were not able to get this information from the two people in custody, we are using other mechanisms to prove that the two have a big network,” Charles Twiine, spokesperson of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations
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A recent police arrest of two suspects accused of killing a special hire driver in Mbarara, James Ahimbisibwe, could have nipped in the bud, the activities of one of the most notorious cartels operating in the savannah region.
Daily Monitor
Thursday April 22 2021
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Among the cases that the police did not inquire about include 850 cases in which people were unlawfully killed in 2020, 3,331 defilement cases and 335 rape cases, the Annual Crime and Traffic Safety report of 2020 shows.
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At least 63,481 criminal cases, which is 32 per cent of the total volume of crime registered in 2020, were not investigated despite the police having enough evidence to prosecute suspects.
Among the cases that the police did not inquire about include 850 cases in which people were unlawfully killed in 2020, 3,331 defilement cases and 335 rape cases, the Annual Crime and Traffic Safety report of 2020 shows.
Centenary Bank loses Shs3b in internal fraud
Wednesday April 21 2021
Centenary Bank branch on Kampala Road. The bank, like several other financial institutions in Uganda, has been grappling with workers who are stealing money from customers and the bank. PHOTO/ FILE.
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Centenary Rural Development Bank Ltd is a financial services provider in Uganda that is engaged in commercial banking. It is the third largest bank after Stanbic and dfcu banks.
According to the Annual Crime and Traffic Safety report 2020, Uganda lost money or property valued at Shs11.5t just only in economic crimes, translating into Shs32b being stolen every day last year.
Daily Monitor
Tuesday April 20 2021
The director of criminal investigations, Ms Grace Akullo, said the perennial 10 leading offences volume reduced last year due to the lockdown imposed to control the spread of coronavirus
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The Inspector General of Police, Mr Martins Okoth-Ochola, said the crime statistics last year were greatly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak and the subsequent lockdown of some sectors.
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Theft was also the leading offence in 2019 with 55,704 cases.
According the Annual Crime and Traffic Safety Report 2020, theft cases were mainly motivated by economic gains.
By December, 16,421 cases were taken to court, 5,257 cases secured convictions, 101 were acquitted, 1,176 were dismissed and 9,886 cases were still pending in court while 14,825 were still under inquiry.