By Siraje Lubwama
The hunter has been hunted after a top spy and senior investigator in the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) was arrested from Jinja Junior Officers’ Military Training School on Friday, over a multibillion gold deal, which involved popular musician Dan Kazibwe aka Raga Dee and socialite Nalongo Maggie Kiweesi, widow to late AK-47.
Our Spy can reveal from impacable sources that Capt. Ivan Kibuuka, a senior CMI investigator, is being investigated on allegations that he got involved in a deal with a Russian lady based in Dubai to recover US4.7M (Over Shs17.2Bn) from city socialite Don Nasser.
Capt. Kibuuka is among the officers currently undergoing a six-month residential training at Kimaka Junior Officers Training College in Jinja, before being promoted to higher ranks .
Capt. Kibuuka’s relatives told the TheSpy Uganda that Kibuuka was picked from the Training School on Friday morning by the deputy commandant CMI Col. Julius Rubakooba Mbeine, who told one of the training officers that he was wanted at CMI headquarters to answer to some allegations they were investigating.
The relatives however claim that they have since been denied access to and communication with Kibuuka and don’t know where he is being detained.
“Since Kibuuka was arrested, his bosses have denied us chance to talk to him; not even his lawyers are allowed to see him. They have refused to reveal his detention place,” Dan Muwanga, Kibuuka’s young brother said.
He added that “It is surprising that an officer, who is on training for promotion, can be arrested like a chicken thief .”
However, when contacted for a comment about Kibuuka’s arrest, Mbeine referred us to the Defence spokesperson Brig. Gen. Richard Karemire, who in turn confirmed to this reporter that indeed Kibuuka had been arrested and was in military custody at Mbuya, pending investigations.
“Yes, he [Kibuuka] is being held pending investigations on a matter I cannot reveal to you now but the relatives must be knowing his unit,” Karemire said.
However, an independent investigation has revealed that Kibuuka is held at Mbuya military facility and was by Monday evening recording a statement, in which he conceded his connections with a business lady Nurkhan Niiazova, working in Duabi but a Kyrgyzstan national in Russia.
Raga Dee And AK-47 In Hot Soup
Our Spies have independently established that the multibillion scandal that led to Capt. Kibuuka’s arrest started in 2018, when Ugandan socialite Nasser Nduhukire alias Don Nasser, allegedly conned Niiazova US $4.7m which he received on her behalf, under the guise of selling her gold, but when the gold deal backfired, he refused to refund her money.
How AK 47’s widow Gets Involved
Niiazova initially gave powers of attorney to AK-47’s widow Nalongo Maggie to recover the said money on her behalf.
However, she instead allegedly betrayed Niiazova and connived with Don Nasser to share part of the money and also disappeared with Niiazova’s car, a Mercedes Benz Cross Country registration number UBE 602H.
Both AK’s widow and Don Nasser were later arrested by police, held at Katwe police station, recorded statements and released thereafter.
It was after their arrest that Niiazova removed the powers of attorney from AK 47’s widow and entrusted the same in Capt. Kibuuka, who filed and served a notice of intention to sue to Don Nasser through his law firm of Kimanje Nsibambi Advocates.
“The Plaintiff [Niiazova through her lawful attorney Kibuuka] shall adduce evidence to show that the defendant [Don Nasser] had and received the money on misrepresentation that the Defendant was going to supply gold worth US$4.7m which he did not do at all,” the intended suit documents which this reporter accessed reads in part.
But according to Muwanga, when Don Nasser heard that Kibuuka was demanding Shs20m from Niiazova to file a suit, he allegedly contacted Ragga Dee, who took him to Kibuuka’s CMI bosses before who he alleged that Kibuuka, as a serving soldier, owns a law firm which deals in fraudulent transactions (gold), thus the arrest.
However, our efforts to get a comment from Ragga Dee was unfruitful because when we called, he picked once and after introducing ourselves he switched it off and never answered again.
“These officers have been frustrating Kibuuka’s promotions yet he has been serving government efficiently to the extent that as he was trying, on orders of the President and Gen. Salim Saleh to arrest police officers who were ferrying away guns on orders of former IGP in 2015.
He was instead arrested and charged with selling guns until Buganda Road court dismissed the case. His arrest is just a ‘nuggu‘ to frustrate his promotion,” Muwanga lamented.
Kibuuka, according to Muwanga is a lawyer by profession, who was active in investigating Gen. Kayihura’s co-accused police officers like the former Commandant Police Flying Squad, Herbert Muhangi.
However, our Spy intimates that Kibuuka is being questioned about why he failed to recover Niiazova’s money and if he recovered it, where is it?
It should be recalled that Don’t Nasser was arrested last year after the police raided his home, where they pulled him out of a ceiling.
The cops recovered several kilograms of fake gold inside his house, plus lots of money in shillings, dollars, pounds and other denominations.
However, he was shortly thereafter released, after spending days at the Special Investigations Division (SID) in Kireka.
After two weeks Don’ Nduhukire was charged with a case of obtaining money by false pretence before being remanded to Kigo prison until December 17, 2019, when he was granted bail.
But the arrest and remand was for a another case of conning an American identified as Johnny Hill, whom hr conned over USD700,000, (about Shs2Bn) also in a sham gold deal. Watch this space for details!
