Daily Monitor
Monday March 15 2021
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KAMPALA- Detectives have reconstructed the scene of crime at the home of the deputy director of Internal Security Organisation (ISO) Taban Amin in Kiwatule, Nakawa Division, where a suspected gold scam in which United States nationals lost more than $10m (Shs37b), was alleged to have started from.
Mr Amin, a son of the former President Idi Amin Dada, was ordered by detectives to take them to his home and re-enact what happened in February 2020.
The spokesman of the Criminal Investigations Directorate, Mr Charles Twiine, confirmed that the reconstruction of the scene was done and investigations are proceeding on well.
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Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
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According to police, it is alleged that Oranto Petroleum International was licensed by the Ministry of Energy in October 2017 to explore oil and gas in Uganda.
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Police are investigating a case of suspected money laundering and fraudulent transaction of $3.4m (about Shs12.4b) involving Guaranty Trust Bank Uganda and Oranto Petroleum International Ltd.
According to police, it is alleged that Oranto Petroleum International was licensed by the Ministry of Energy in October 2017 to explore oil and gas in Uganda.
Sources at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (CID) headquarters close to the investigation told Daily Monitor that when Oranto Petroleum International was awarded the contract, it opened up two accounts in Guaranty Trust Bank Uganda- a dollar account and a shilling account.
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Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 10 2021
Mr Alfred Avuni, the director of John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre with some of the girls whom they rescued from Oman and Saudi Arabia last year. PHOTO/STEPHEN OTAGE.
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The John Paul II Justice and Peace Centre, a Catholic Church institution comprising seven missionary congregations, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime have warned of a new wave of crime that involves trafficking in persons for body organs and slavery.
Msgr John Baptist Kauta, the secretary general of the Uganda Episcopal Conference, said many Ugandans are being trafficked, especially to the Middle East, where they are subjected to slavery, cheap labour and their internal body organs harvested for ritual sacrifice.