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Bid to seize fugitive's home
06/05/2008 14:01 - (SA)
Nairobi - Kenya's chief prosecutor sought on Tuesday to seize financial control of the luxury Nairobi estate of Rwanda's most wanted war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga.
Keriako Tobiko called on the High Court to order the rent from the estate to be deposited with the registrar instead of being wired to Belgium's Banque De La Poste in the name of Kabuga's wife Mukazitoni Josephine.
The court is yet to make a ruling.
The United States has placed a five-million-dollar bounty on the head of Kabuga, who has been on the run for years since being indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed 800 000 people.
The Tanzania-based ICTR has said it is closing in on the fugitive, its most high-profile suspect still at-large more than a decade after the genocide.
Kenya, where Kabuga allegedly found protection from senior officials in the previous government, denies Kabuga is in the country and has pledged to arrest him if he is found there.
Kabuga, an ethnic Hutu, has been accused of being a key financier and supplying machetes and other weapons to carry out the massacre of 800 000 people, mostly Tutsis, within four months in 1994.
Born in 1935, the wealthy businessman is said to be a frequent traveller in various African nations where he buys protection.
He was thrown out of Switzerland in 1994, and spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo before seeking refuge in Kenya, where he has escaped several attempts to arrest him.
- AFP
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