Giwunye! Sente zabatujju ba Bbomu Poliisi Eziguddemu Nezikwata Ababakozesa Bane mu government
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Date: 2021-10-28

Giwunye! Sente zabatujju ba Bbomu Poliisi Eziguddemu Nezikwata Ababakozesa Bane mu government

Police bust Shs1.8b ADF cash racket, detain three
The security agencies have implicated petroleum and real estate companies in the laundering of over Shs1.8b to bankroll the activities of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a terrorist group, in the country.
Although the police didn’t name the petroleum firms and real estate dealers, they provided particulars of two suspects already taken into custody over the alleged criminal dealings.

The revelations follow explosions of two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), at a pork restaurant in Kampala’s Kawempe Division and on a moving bus in Mpigi along Kampala-Masaka highway on Saturday and Monday, respectively.

President Museveni, the commander-in-chief, linked both attacks to a sleeper cell of the Ugandan-born ADF, which has assumed the name Islamic State Central Africa Province or ISCAP since becoming an ISIS affiliate in 2018.
Police promptly classified the Saturday night blast in Komamboga as “an act of domestic terrorism”, but said there was no evidence connecting it to ADF despite ISCAP claiming responsibility.
Yesterday, however, police in a fairly lengthy statement put names to alleged crimes, specified cash flows involved and how it exchanged hands to finance ADF operations.

Police spokesman Fred Enanga said they had arrested two suspects, one man and a woman whose names we are withholding pending their arraignment in court.
“…[they] have so far received $114,000 (Shs406m) and distributed it to their recipients on behalf of the ADF. One of the recipients …who received money to facilitate acts of terrorism, was arrested on the October 25 from Hoima District,” he said.
This is the biggest amount of money known to have been sent to finance ADF operations, according to investigators. Reports by the United Nations experts on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo insurgence often find funding transactions to ADF that are lower than Shs1m.  
Mr Enanga yesterday said the funding has also been channelled through selected petroleum companies and real estate dealers.

“About $400,000 (Shs1.4b) found its way through the petroleum companies,” Mr Enanga said. 
He, however, did not disclose the source of the large sum of money or how it moved into the country despite tightened cash inflow rules.
In interviews for this newspaper’s lead story yesterday, highly-placed security and intelligence sources intimated that financing for ADF operations are funnelled by agents and sympathisers in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda.
The money is either delivered in dollar bills or wired digitally to DRC where tracking of terrorism financing in less strict than in Uganda.

In Uganda, tighter rules on terrorism financing under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2013, make it difficult to receive into the country in excess of Shs10m either through money transfer services or inter-bank transfers without questions, if not prohibition.
The penalty for terrorism financing, if convicted, includes freezing of bank accounts and seizure of property amassed through such criminal enterprise.
In strident comments, President Museveni yesterday said ADF, in the two rudimentary attacks, was involved in “shallow efforts” at urban terrorism, but they will be defeated as its subversive activities was ended in 2007 in Semliki National Game Park.