A mufere who defrauded sh500m from public

CID headquarters detectives are holding mufere a one Odaka Jimmy-alias Governor aged 28, for defrauding people over sh500 million through fake Gold transactions.

The suspect who is a resident of Mirumu Town Council in Abim District was arrested today 8th Feb.2021 from a hideout in soroti. This follows a reported case of fraud amounting to  sh85m from a one Boniface Mumbere, a businessman.

The  mufere suspect has over 70 case files reported against him in Abim and Soroti respectively.
The suspects admits to the fraud, but claims that the money received was shared by several people whose contact she cant trace.

“Our teams are still carrying out deeper investigations as the files are processed for prosecution,” says Charles Twiine, the spokesman.

In Uganda, there have been several scandals in the previous years, this is similar to them. For example, there was the Botched Gold Transaction; Total Con-sh2bn.

This involved Edward Ddumba Muwawu who was introduced to Jespersten a Danish national by Egesa, as a gold dealer. They all met in Muwawu’s home in Naalya and, later went to a shrine in Masaka, where the Mawawu showed the Jespersten a wooden box, which he said contained 70kg of gold. (Who freaking seals deals in a shrine?)

Anyway, later on, Jespersten agreed to buy 25kg of gold at Shs 520,000 per kg and Muwawu reportedly agreed to deliver it to Brussels. Muwawu was later given Shs 110m to transport the gold. At an unspecified time, Muwawu, who was reportedly headed for Brussels, called Jespersten, who left Denmark for the rendezvous.

Before they could meet, Muwawu reportedly called to inform them his flight had been diverted to London. He also reportedly asked for more money to pay taxes to clear the consignment, upon which the equivalent of Shs 32m was dispatched through Western Union. But there was more trouble on the way, when Muwawu allegedly called Jespersten again, to say he was now in Amsterdam, where he requested for 5,000 Euros (about sh 20m) to clear his consignment.

Muwawu and Jespersten met in Amsterdam at a date the latter doesn’t recall and they headed to Brussels to meet the final ‘buyer’ of the gold. While in Brussels, Jespersten was allegedly introduced to another mufere by Muwawu, who asked for another 58,000 Euros (about Shs 232m) for courier services.

This man also allegedly defrauded the Jerpersten of an additional 40,000 Euros (about Shs 160m) for opening up a bank account, hiring a lawyer and air ticket. After this, Muwawu allegedly disappeared after getting his cut of the money and switched off his phones. He was later arrested in Kampala.