Wednesday 24 July 2013

Meddie Sentongo out of prison.





 After serving  18-month jail sentence in Luzira Prison .Meddie Sentongo, a Kampala business man walked to freedom on Tuesday morning.  On July 12, 2012 Anti-Corruption Court Judge Catherine Bamugemereire sentenced Bad Black to four years in prison after condemning her of fraud. Over the same crime, Ssentongo was sentenced to 18 months.

Black was convicted for embezzling US$3.9m from the company she jointly owned with her ex-lover, a British engineer, David Greenhalgh. Evidence given by the acquaintances whose help they sought in their fraudulent quest as well as accountants and bank officials was to pin them  in court.
The Judge noted that when Meddie needed documentation with a resemblance of any professionalism to convince Greenhalgh for money, "he naturally failed to pay to the back street engineering firm to which prosecution witness Peter Michael Lule belonged…."The documentation concerned the Bill of quantities and Lule attributed its authorship to Alkon (U) Ltd on advice of Meddie who wanted it to be associated with a stronger brand of Alcon.
The Documentation was needed to convince Greenhalgh to send US$8m to Daveshan Developments company" from which he and Black would siphon it. And since Black was the only signatory to the company because Greenhalgh was far away in Britain.The judge noted that although the US$8m did not come, the US$3.9m that was wired was taken off by Black and at the same time, an equivalent of the withdrawn dollars would be deposited on Meddie's account by her.

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