Lawyer Bob Kasango has passed on after succumbing to heart failure at Luzira Prison on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital, Kampala.
In 2018, the Anti-Corruption Court sentenced lawyer Kasango to 16 years in jail for unlawfully accessing money meant for pensioners.
Kasango was accused of various counts of theft and forgery of two judicial document to steal Shs15.4b of pension money and conspiracy to commit a crime.
The Shs15.4b was diverted to the account of Mr Kasango’s Hall and Partners law firm by the three officials.
The charges ranged from conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit a felony, forgery, to theft and diversion of public funds.