The £242,000 draft was questioned after the Vatican cross-checked and reported that no instructions had been given for the money to be issued. However, the conmen succeeded in processing one draft (for £264,000), but failed to process the second after it was intercepted. All the money was to be converted to Euros first and then wired. The money was part of two drafts that were prepared by the conmen – one for £264,000 (about sh1b) and the other for £242,000 (about sh968m). The money, according to the Police, was wired in bits to an account in FINA, Crane Bank, Standard Chartered and Stanbic as well as two other bank accounts in KCB between January 17 and 18 2013.
Ms Nabasa, who is in her early 20s and is said to have worked for three different banks before resigning owned the bank accounts where the money was deposited. More than Shs2 billion was fraudulently received from Vatican bank, after its system was hacked in. The ‘key player’ Ruth Nabuguzi, 49, ‘employed multiple identities … so many that the true number of identities may never ever be known’. They had so many identities that it may never be known exactly how much they took out of the benefits system and the UK over such a long period of time.
Fraud relating to accommodation costs and sub-letting of flats cost £650,000, and the family’s myriad benefits totaled £900,000. A further £154,000 went on education for the ‘family’, with £37,500 for a single higher education course. Supplying the drugs for so many years cost the taxpayer more than £2million. Then one of them also claimed to suffer from HIV and require costly drugs – but in reality sent the drugs back to Uganda to be sold for huge profits. They created fake identities for up to 100 children to milk the benefit system. Here’s how They conspired together to create, use and exploit’ false identities in order to carry out the staggering fraud. One asks how a single family can pull off such a scam for twenty solid years in a foreign country undetected. This was a 20-year organized family scam. Here is our list of five top crazy cons ever carried out by Ugandan nationals worldwide. We’re among the most corrupt in Africa, we’ve got the cup for best alcohol consumers and soon we’re beating Nigeria in fraud stunts.