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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.
Police hunt for 7 presidential guards cited in Shs 20bn gold scam
March 10, 2021 Some of the confiscated gold boxes at CID offices
Economic crime investigators from the Uganda Police Force have launched a manhunt for seven soldiers from the elite Special Forces Command (SFC) accused of defrauding a US national, Anastasios Belesis over Shs 20 billion in a gold scam.
Belesis filed a case at the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) headquarters last month implicating over 10 people for participating in a scam, where he lost at least $5.5 million.
In his case registered vide GEF 086/2021at CID; Belesis said he was hoodwinked by Enock Katwesigye alias Col Frank and Martin Bwayo alias Capt Bob into the gold scam. The duo, according to Belesis, hijacked the gold they had sold him with armed men dressed in military uniform.
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