Mariam Natasha the spokesperson of the State House Anti Corruption Unity has revealed that their detectives have intensified the fight against the criminal connivance of stealing people’s money from banks through forged garnishee orders.
Natasha made a statement after the State House detectives successfully stopped the stealing of Shs600m from the bank account of Steven Karekezi in the DFCU Bank.
She explained that bank staff were involved in the fraud which was authorized by the Court based on the forged documents.
She explains that a one Gerald Ngabirano who was charged with forgery and uttering false documents before Kabale Chief Magistrate’s Court and remanded to Ndorwa government prison was fronted to lead the fraudulent deal through forging Karekezi’s National Identity Card and other agreements which he presented to Court claiming that he entered a business transaction with the victim and was demanding him over Shs800m.
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Court based on the forged documents to authorise Ngabirano with a garnishee order to proceed and recover his money from Karekezi’s bank account.
However, the State House detectives intercepted the fraud based on the whistleblower’s information.
This is not the first time that forged garnishee orders are being taken to court and people’s money stolen from their bank accounts.
In 2023, Bank of Africa top bosses paniced after a whistleblower petitioned Bank of Uganda claiming that their staff were conniving with criminals to steal people’s money from the bank.
The whistleblower claimed that garnishee orders are printed from Nasser Road and according to highly placed sources in security, the fraud was as a result of poor human resource mismanagement in Bank of Africa and Bank of Uganda whose officials slept on the job.
The bank’s Managing Director Arthur Isiko was accused of mistreating staff which forced a number of them including the Bank’s Executive Director Robinson Bernard Magulu to resign.
Sources intimated to us that they left the bank with a huge loss which resulted from their personal mistakes.
According to bank Insiders, former staff stole the bank’s money through syndicated salary loans where some connived with clients and forged signatures of their marriage partners which they presented as proof for the matrimonial properties they used as security for loans. Once the money was released, another partner sued the bank.
Sources added that former staff of the bank used the stolen money to set up their private businesses. The bank then devised a plan to confiscate these businesses and properties to auction them to recover their money.
