Court heard that the accused between November 2022 and April 2023 at Bloom Advocates located at Kingdom Building in Kampala, with intent to defraud obtained $553,000 (more than Shs2 billion) from KG Unlimited LLC by falsely pretending that they were going to award it a contract of supplying agricultural Drone Sprayers and fertilisers from Uganda’s ministry of agriculture, animal industries and fisheries whereas not.

It is further alleged that the four accused and others on the run conspired to commit a felony by obtaining the said money falsely from the American firm.   Balondemu, and his co-accused however, denied the charges and were remanded to Luzira Prison amidst lengthy submissions from their lawyers seeking to have them bailed, pending the hearing of their case.“There are many documents involved in this application. The national identification cards, the employment cards, local council letters, affidavits opposing the application and medical forms of Balondemu,” Presiding magistrate, Ms Winnie Nankya held on Monday afternoon.