Government critic and Social Media commentator Frank M Gashumba together with his brother Innocent Kasumba and Ismail Kiyingi have been freshly charged with fraud, forgery and possession of illicit drugs.
Buganda Road Chief Magistrate James Ereemye Mawanda on Tuesday 16, 01, 2018 read the charges but all the accused pleaded not guilty.
Ereemye later adjourn court and extended the bail of the accused to February 10, 2018 because State Attorney Nelly Asiku informed court that investigations into the matter are still ongoing.
This website understands that late last year, CMI operatives effected the arrest of Gashumba and his brother after a whistle-blower’s report to the Permanent Secretary MODVA about a group that was planning to fleece an investor disguising as MODVA officials.
It was also reported that the fraudsters under the cover of a company named Flagship group purported to be contracted by MODVA for out sourcing had invited the investors to Golden Tulip Hotel in Nakasero for a meeting over a purported deal to supply UPDF with hundreds of Military Trucks.
Upon the arrest, their residents were searched and a lot of things were confiscated.
For Innocent Kasumba alias Mutabazi a search that was conducted on his residence yielded several items that included over 20 various stamps including one of the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs, multiple identification documents including his two passports with separate identities and a passport of Gashumba Frank in the name of Ssentogo Frank Disans-Passport NO B0892687.
A search at the office of Gashumba Frank has yielded a second passport in the name Gashumba Franco Malimungu-passport no B0958085,several other stamps and documents authored in the name of Ministries of; MODVA, Agriculture Fisheries and Animal Industry.
