Husband Arrested For Stealing From Wife’s Mobile Money Account
She stole over 3 Million/ Photo courtesy
Buganda Road Court has handed Mwebaze Bashir, 42, a sentence of 18 months in prison for stealing from wife’s mobile money account.
Court heard that Uganda Communications Commission received a complaint in July 2020 from Asiinga Doreen stating that an amount of Sh7 million had been withdrawn from her account.
In her statement, the victim explained that the money had been contributed mainly by her father and relatives who had a goal of providing for other family members through the lockdown period.
Being the elder in the family, she was trusted with the money but she later discovered that Sh7 million was missing yet she only lived with her husband Mwebaze Bashir at that time.
Asiinga visited the MTN branch located at Lugogo to help her trace the money when one of the staff told her that she had sent the money to a phone number registered under Grace Ann Apio.
Since she was not aware of this particular transaction, Asiinga took her complaint to UCC because she suspected foul play by the telecom company.
Upon investigations, Byamugisha Jackson from CID discovered that the money had been transferred from Apio’s number to a mobile money agent named Kamanzi on the 25th June, 2022. He was arrested and once interrogated, he revealed that he had sold this particular sim card to Bashir for Sh100,000.
The money had been withdrawn from a telecom agent a few days later and when confronted; the agent whose identity was concealed revealed that she had handled the transaction from the two men who came riding a motorcycle.
They claimed they were withdrawing the money to pay for their father’s medical bills, something which sounded suspicious to the agent prompting her to take photos of the suspects. They were arrested based on the pictures.
The sentence was handed down by Grade One Magistrate Nambozo Sanula after Mwebaze was found guilty for two counts of unauthorized use of computer services and electronic fraud. He concurrently will serve 12 months and 18 months for the crimes respectively.
He was also ordered to refund the stolen money to his wife
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