POLICE FRAUD: OFFICERS CURSE CHARLES KATARATAMBI OVER EQUITY MONEY

Police officers who were attached to Special Investigations Department (SIU), Kileka formerly known as Wembley (torture unit) under Charles Kataratambi, are cursing him. The officers say they were put on Katebe( not deployed) yet it is their boss who took lion’s share.

A police officer who did not want to be disclosed told The Drone Media that all the officers who were attached to SIU then were sent to force training and after the course were not redeployed. The officer and others at large are riding boda boda, yet their former boss, Charles Kataratambi went for Masters Degree and has been promised redeployment.

Last year, Charles Kataratambi and his gang were discovered to have chewed exhibit money from Equity Bank. Their houses were searched to the shock of many and the public.

An officer who was part of the search team said they seized newly bought television sets, sofa sets, two Toyota prados and various electronics from the homes of Alex Kabanda and two others only identified as Eddie and Solomon.

They seized property worth unspecified amount of money from the home of Charles Kataratambi, the former head of the Special Investigations Unit-SIU and three other officers. The four officers were being investigated for mismanaging a case of fraud at Equity Bank. The officers were accused of sharing US$450,000 about 1.3 Billion Shillings that was recovered as exhibit in the fraud case.

In March, 2015 Moses Ebitu, the Operations Manager Equity Bank reported a case of fraud vide number E/078/15 at SIU headquarters in Kireka. Ebitu told police that US$450,000 was fraudulently withdrawn from Accounts of Sisco Majok Makom and Mabior Achang Ajalg, both South Sudan nationals at their Equity Bank Oasis Mall Branch on March 28th and 29th 2015. The police file indicated that three people withdrew the money.

In a similar case, former head of Cyber Crimes in Uganda Police was dismissed after he chewed $250,000 that was an exhibit from American Embassy. This officer was given the cheque of that money as an exhibit but he crossed to Kenya and cashed it. Immediately he withdrew the American Embassy through its technology got to know and they rang Edward Ochom who arrested the officer. On checking his passport they found he had crossed the boarder posts at the time the cheque was cashed.