Kampala– City Hall Magistrates Court in Kampala , has charged City Business man Godfrey Luyima with charges relating to Gold scamming.
Luyima who was arrested by Anti Corruption Unit of State House working with Criminal Investigation Division of Uganda Police, was on Wednesday presented in court by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).
Luyima was charged with offences which included ; obtaining money by false pretence, uttering false documents, and forgery which he denied in his plea.
Being that investigations in the matter are still under way, Luyima was remanded to Luzira Prison until 10th September 2025
Prosecution Contends 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.”
That 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.
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