City Lawyer And Kampala Land Board Boss Charged Over Forgery

City Lawyer And Kampala Land Board Boss Charged Over Forger

By Angel Lubowa

KAMPALA

THE Kampala district land board boss and city Lawyer, Mr David Balondemu who was on Friday arrested as he entered the country from Dubai has been charged in courts of law.

Balondemu was on Tuesday 15, 2024 afternoon arraigned , before the Buganda Road Chief Magistrate’s Court on charges of forgery and conspiracy to commit a felony.

Court heard that the accused while facing charges of obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to defraud over UGX 2.2Billion from an American Company, KG Unlimited LL.C, knowingly and fraudulently forged medical documents in support of his bail application.

He has been remanded until 22/10/2024.

The city lawyer spent the whole weekend at CPS coolers after detectives from the State House Anti Corruption Unit and other security agencies working with Uganda police arrested him as soon as he disembarked a plane from Dubai on Friday.

This followed the state’s reinstatement of his fraud cases which courts had since dropped.

The arrest also was a result of a fresh build up from Mr Balondemu’s alleged charges relating to money laundering and his alleged involvement in the fraudulent transfer of plot 20 prince Charles drive in Kololo , Kampala.

During the Tuesday court session, two charges were read before him which he denied and court remanded him.

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.

It remains unclear how his said civil suits will now take off after state reinstated the parent charges.

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.