By Our Reporter
Mariam Natasha the spokesperson of the State House Anti Corruption Unity has revealed that their detectives have intensified the fight against the criminal connivance of stealing people’s money from banks through forged garnishee orders.
Natasha made a statement after the State House detectives successfully stopped the stealing of Shs600m from the bank account of Steven Karekezi in the DFCU Bank explaining that bank staff were involved in the fraud which was authorized by the Court based on the forged documents.
She explained that a one Gerald Ngabirano who was charged with forgery and uttering false documents before Kabale Chief Magistrates Court and remanded to Ndorwa government prison was fronted to lead the fraudulent deal through forging Karekezi’s National Identity Card and other agreement which he presented to Court claiming that he enters a business transaction with the victim and his demanding him over Shs800m.
Court based on the forged documents authorised Ngabirano with a garnishee order to proceed and recover his money from Karekezi’s bank account however the State House detectives intercepted the fraud based on the whistleblower’s information.
This is not the first time when forged garnishee orders are taken to court and people’s money are stolen from their bank accounts, in 2023 Bank of Africa top bosses panics after a whistleblower petitioned bank of Uganda claiming that their staff are conniving with criminals to steal people’s money from the bank.
The whistleblower claims that garnishee orders are printed from Nasser Road and according to highly placed sources in security the fraud was resulted from poor human resource mismanagement in bank of Africa and officials of the bank of Uganda sleeping on their supervisory role.
The bank’s Managing Director Arthur Isiko is accused of mistreating staff which forced a number of them including the Bank’s Executive Director Robinson Bernard Magulu to resign but sources claim that they left the bank with a huge loss which resulted from their personal mistakes.
According to sources, formers staff stole the bank’s money through syndicated salary loans and others connive with clients and forged signature of their marriage patterners when presenting matrimonial properties to be used as security for loan and after money released, another patterner sued the bank and billions of money lost.
Sources added that former staff of the bank used the stolen money to set up their private businesses which they wanted to be confiscated and be auctioned by the bank to recover its money.
