ISO Probes Former Buganda AG David Mpanga over Embezzlement, Money Laundering
The Internal Security Organization (ISO) has commenced investigations on city lawyer David Mpanga of AF Mpanga Advocates on allegations of embezzlement, forgery and money laundering.
According to a letter dated February 28, 2019, Deputy Commander of Kampala Metropolitan Police, Ben Michael Ogingo has summoned lawyer Mpanga and four others to help Police and its sister agencies in the investigation. The others are AF Mpanga Advocates, Jaqueline Lule, Hawa Bukenya and Angelo Ochwo.
Mpanga and others have been summoned at ISO Headquarters in Nakasero on the 7th March 2019 “to provide valuable information relevant to matters under investigation in connection to allegations of forgery, embezzlement and money laundering concerning Account No. 9030008027470 in Stanbic Bank.”
Mpanga and his AF Mpanga Advocates are embroiled in a conflict of interest case in which Bank of Uganda on June 30, 2017, sued city businessman Sudhir Ruparelia and his investments firm Meera Investments Ltd seeking to recover about Shs400bn allegedly extracted fraudulently from Crane Bank together with Freehold titles of the Bank’s branches.
In his affidavit, Sudhir asked Court to block AF Mpanga Advocates who are representing the Central Bank in this court case because the same lawyers were representing Crane Bank.
Mpanga was last week dropped as Attorney General of Buganda Kingdom in the recent changes made by the Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi.
