Lawyer Drake Twebaze remanded over shs1.9b fraud
Court yesterday remanded lawyer Drake Twebaze to Luzira Prisons over a case of fraud involving shs1.9b.
According to the Anti-Corruption Unit of State House, Twebaze appeared before Buganda Road Magistrate’s Court on various charges, including; obtaining money by false pretenses, conspiracy to defraud, and forgery.
He was remanded until June 13, 2025.
Court documents indicate that between September and December 2022, in Kampala City, the accused together with others allegedly obtained $553,500 from Talib Antonio McDowell of KG Unlimited LLC, Florida, USA, by falsely claiming that the money was necessary as a statutory compliance fee for pre-qualification to participate in a single-source bidding process for supplying a water plant to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries, and Fisheries, whereas not.
Additionally, he and his co-accused forged a letter to KG Unlimited LLC, purporting it to be a document authored by the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority where as not.
