Kabuga story revived – He is the most wanted man by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Rwanda trial arm-twisting Kenya,

claims Kabuga wife

 

By Judy Ogutu  

The wife of Rwanda fugitive Felicien Kabuga now claims the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is blackmailing Kenya.

An advocate appearing for Mrs Josephine Mukazitoni, Mr Kennedy Ogeto, said: “The court should not be party to this arm-twisting. The court is not an investigative arm of the ICTR.”

He made the claims when he made submissions to support an application by Mukazitoni to challenge orders freezing any dealings in Kabuga’s property.

Last May, the Attorney-General went to court, through the Director of Public Prosecution Keriako Tobiko and obtained orders freezing dealings in the Spanish Villas.

Mukazitoni wants Justice Muga Apondi to set aside or vary the orders restraining Kabuga , Kenya Trust Company and herself from selling, disposing of, damaging or wasting the property.

Mukazitoni, who lives in Belgium, says she was the owner of the villas. Ogeto said ICTR statutes, which the AG relied on to obtain the orders, had not been enacted in Kenya.

 

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