Ronald Muramuzi faces fresh Charges
Two claimants from Kirumura have reinstated the TelexFree charges against Ronald Muramuzi.
The claimants say that in early 2014, Ronald Muramuzi through his feigned TelexFree and cyber techniques, robbed about She 7 millions, which they paid to him cash.
Edgar Kansiime and Moses Mutungi, who had been on odd jobs abroad, returned recently and vowed to take on Ronald Muramuzi, who the two accuse of bribing his way out.
The claimants say they got some legal fees now, but they also have probono lawyers to help even the rest of Ugandan who were cheated.
In 2014, Ronald Muramuzi was charged with Promoting Electronic Fraud.
Muramuzi was arrested following the sudden closure of Telex free, an international scheme which reaped hundreds of billions of shillings from Ugandans.
Muramuzi was picked by detectives before being detained at Kampala Central Police Station as investigations into the matter continued.
He was later charged with three counts of electronic fraud, conspiracy to commit a felony and obtaining money by false pretence, that is what the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman Patrick Onyango said then.
Muramuzi was arrested following the sudden closure of Telex free, an international scheme which reaped hundreds of billions of shillings from Ugandans.
He was picked by detectives before being detained at Kampala Central Police Station as investigations into the matter continued.
Many of the alleged victims of TelexFree were drawn into the schemes marketing pitch by other members of their community who boasted of the huge sums they were making for the simple job of promoting an Internet telephone service.
The scheme was initially banned in Brazil and went under investigation in the United states of America and other countries around the world.
Some owners in the US were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. It had earlier been banned in Rwanda.
Onyango added that police received over 300 complaints from people who were seduced to join the scheme. They believed that over Ugx 7billion was defrauded from unsuspecting individuals who fell prey to the marketing antics and joined the scheme.
Bank of Uganda had earlier named TelexFree and some fraudulent Forex operators as “unregulated and unlicensed financial schemes” that prey upon the poor and the uneducated.
Onyango said that the charge sheet was not yet complete as more complaints were lodged. He was however optimistic that the charge sheet would be completed. That was May, 2014.