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Basajjabalaba sent to Luzira prison
By Anne Mugisa, Simon Masaba and Taddeo Bwambale
Hassan Basajjabalaba was remanded in Luzira Prison Wednesday afternoon after the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) charged him afresh over forging a consent judgment to evade taxes.
The State rejected Basajjabalaba’s earlier private prosecution, calling it a ploy by the businessman to evade justice through staging a sham self prosecution using his own agents.
Chief Magisterate Eleanor Khainza presided over it.
The taxes in question amounting to sh20,122,239,094 (about sh20bn) arose out of the sh142,698,097,388 (about sh142bn) compensation to Basajjabalaba’s companies under Haba Group Ltd., for the City markets.
The compensation is also subject of another query and has seen two ministers resign over it.
The DPP, Richard Butera also said on Wednesday that his office is taking up the issue of Basajjabalaba’s stealth appearance in Court on Monday to take plea under private prosecution.
When contacted, Butera said: “Police was told by his agents that he was abroad and were waiting f
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Basajjabalaba, Mubajje court feud over Muslim leadership resumes
The court is today set to hear an application in which Hassan Basajjabalaba seeks to stop Sheikh Shaban Ramadhan Mubajje from performing the duties of his office before the main petition is heard.
The case which was adjourned to January 27, 2023, was rescheduled for today before Mengo Chief Magistrates’ Court following a petition by Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) top leadership to the Principal Judge, Dr Flavian Zeija.
A group of Muslims led by Basajjabalaba petitioned court on December 2, last year, seeking orders stopping UMSC activities. They are also challenging the validity of the elections held in December last year.
Documents seen by New Vision indicate that on December 2, last year, the court issued an order, directing those fresh elections to be conducted by an independent electoral commission on December 3, 2022.
However, UMSC and Mubajje claim that the order was not served to them until the general assembly commenced.
On the other hand, Basajjabalaba alleged that UMSC and Mubajje di
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On March 6, 2013, the duo was committed for trial in the High court on three counts of forgery of a judicial document, uttering a false document, and conspiracy to evade tax law.
The indictment was signed off on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) by Jane Frances Abodo, then as resident principal state attorney at the Anticorruption court.
The charges stemmed from an extremely desperate attempt by the brothers to block Uganda Revenue Authority from recovering at least Shs 20bn in taxes. In the 2010/11 financial year, the duo received a windfall of Shs 142bn in a dubious compensation scheme arising from government’s repossession of three markets and the Constitutional square (which had been illegally tendered to them in the early 2000s).
On May 8, 2013 this landmark anti-corruption trial was “temporarily stayed”—initially by the Constitutional court and later the Supreme court, pending an inquiry sought by the duo into some matters of constitutional interpretation. On November 19, 2021 the Supreme court okayed the prosecution to continue.
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