Following his arrest by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit, the Criminal Investigations Directorate in collaboration with Office of Public Prosecutions have arraigned Luyima Godfrey, a businessman and alleged gold scammer, before the KCCA Chief Magistrate’s Court.
Luyima faces multiple charges, including obtaining money by false pretence, uttering false documents, and forgery.
Investigations reveal that in September 2021, while in Kampala district, the accused obtained over USD 600,000 from Hyun Uk Kim, a Korean national, by falsely claiming he would supply him with 53 kilograms of gold.
To execute the fraud, he allegedly posed as a Congolese gold dealer under the false identity “Likambo Augustine.”
He further presented forged documents to the victim in a bid to make the transaction appear genuine, whereas it was not.
In 2023, Balondemu David, Mkwe Eric, Mugisha James Jeff, and Maviri Godfrey were charged in the same case, but under unclear circumstances, the matter was dismissed by court.
The DPP has since ordered the reinstatement of charges against all the suspects involved.
The accused has been remanded until September 10, 2025.
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In January 2025, The Observer newspaper reported how two Kazakhstan nationals, Baishev Rinad and Jambulov Olzhas accused Ugandan businessmen of defrauding them in counterfeit gold transaction.
According to the pair, they came to Uganda on March 20, 2023, at the invitation of a Ugandan man identified as Eric. The Observer reported that Eric claimed to be a relative of the Ugandan President.
Read more: New gold scam rocks Kampala.
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