The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mike Chibita has informed Court of his inability to continue with a case against lawyer Paul Wanyoto Mugoya and self exiled police officer Siraje Bakaleke.
The Anti-Corruption Court which sat Monday morning heard that the DPP decided to discontinue the proceeding against Wanyoto without giving reasons.
Wanyoto, last year petitioned the High court seeking to block his trial together with eight others in the Anti-Corruption court for alleged fraud and kidnap.
Wanyoto was accused alongside Samuel Nabeta Mulowooza, the managing director Eye Power Engineering Company and police officers, Siraje Bakaleke, Robert Munezero, Innocent Nuwagaba, Robert Ray Asiimwe, Junior Amanya, Babu Gastavas and Kenneth Zirintuusa.
They were accused of extorting Shs 1.4 billion from Park Seunghoon and Jang Shingu Un, both South Korean nationals who had come to Uganda to purchase gold last year.
The officers reportedly connived with Wanyoto who was representing the South Korean businessmen and placed them at gunpoint at Acacia Mall in Kampala. The Koreans were locked up at Katwe police station before police officers procured for them air tickets with intentions of deporting them on the orders of assistant commissioner of police (ASP), Siraje Bakaleke.
However, the suspects were intercepted by security operatives before deporting their victims and dragged before the Anti-Corruption court. Now, Wanyoto who has never appeared before the Anti-Corruption court to plead to the charges, has rushed to the Civil Division of High court seeking an injunction to block his trial, arguing that the charges against him were sanctioned in bad faith.
However, a source in DPP’s office says that Mr. Chibita failed to gather evidence to charge Mr. Wanyoto and his co-accused.