Why City Lawyer Balondemu Was Re_ Arrested At Entebbe Airpor
By Angel Lubowa
ENTEBBE
WHEN this Media reported a month ago that government had engineered fresh summons against city lawyer and Kampala district land board boss David Balondemu after reinstating his fraud cases , it was a matter of time.
As that was not enough, it was alleged that Mr Balondemu was facing more charges relating to money laundering and his alleged involvement in the fraudulent transfer of plot 20 prince Charles drive in Kololo , Kampala.
He was therefore on Friday
arrested by detectives from the no nonsense State House Anti Corruption Unit moments after he had returned from Dubai.
According to Kampala police deputy spokesperson, Luke Oweyesigyire, Mr Balondemu was delivered to CPS coolers where he spent the weekend pending investigations and court process.
This comes at a time when
Mr Balondemu had too filed a civil suit against the Attorney general and the Korean investor demanding a 20 billion compasation for criminal charges against him which courts dismissed recently.
This prompted Mr Simon Kintu Zirintuusa the civil court deputy registrar to direct the defants to file their defense with in 15 days.
However informed sources told this writer that by the time of his filing, Brig .Gen Henry Isoke the the head of State House Anti Corruption Unit and other nvestor security agencies had run to the office of the DPP to ask for the reinstatement of the dropped charges sighting some irregularities and secured fresh court summons to the charges.
” The first dismissal does not mean that such cases cannot be brought back. Infact we have fresh court summons against Mr Balondemu and others because all evidence and proof of the offenses are available” said an investigator from State House Anti Corruption Unit .
According to information availed to the press, Mr Balondemu allegedly filed fake medical papers before court to secure bail purporting to be awaiting medical operations at Kampala hospital which was later found forged according to testimonies of it’s director, Dr Peter Kibuuka.
Balondemu and others were on October 17,2023 arrested in a joint operation of State House Anti Corruption Unit, Uganda police and other departments on cases of obtaining money by false pretense.
It was alleged that between March and November 2023, Balondemu and others recieved billions of money from Hyun UK Kim among others amounting to over 2.3 billions in Uganda currency.
But court at City Hall headed by grade one magistrate, Rehema Nassozi Ssebowa dismissed the case after proscecution failed to adduce evidence.
Another court at Buganda road also dismissed related charges for lack of evidence.
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