Law President to Gold Mafia?-Isaac Ssemakadde

Law president to gold mafia?-Isaac Ssemakadde

Curiosity has ceased the spotlight on whether those that claim to truely fight for human rights in Uganda are the right people to be trusted especially while everyone seeks to unite and form a voice that can speak for all people of Uganda through entrusting people into powerful positions.

In a gold trade that turned to be malicious to a one American investor, Robert Tanner Edward, the investor decided to seek for help from the media

“Isaac Ssemakadde, the president of the Uganda LAw society in this case has sparked conversations in town today as he has been allegedly found to be part of this large scheme gold fraud activity which includes but is not limited to Maxim advocates and solicitors company, a company in which he is a key stakeholder/administrator “. The NBS research team reported on their live at 9 news program.

Tanner Robert Edward , who claims to be the victim of these fraud activities is an American investor who claims to have been connected to a prominent gold dealer in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo who was introduced to him as Kasango . He claims to specifically have contacted this one dealer and he was taken to an unknown warehouse in Dubai where he was shown all 150 kilograms of gold he was to purchase by Kasango and two unidentified Arab men that accompanied him, two of the one hundred and fifty gold kilograms were tested and proved to be real gold while the rest were not tested and the dealers told Mr Tanner that all 150kg could not be tested due to their customer agreement terms and conditions in which he was required to pay taxes.

Tanner was later prompted to first pay $840,000 to a company, Greenwave Middle East Trading through stanbic bank Uganda limited which transaction he claims was at the seller’s request. It is alleged that the whole deal was brokered by Farouk Kasule as a middle man who provided account details to Tanner on which he was to pay the required funds, after which incident he was issued and invoice. It was also reported that Maxim advocates a of Isaac Ssemakadde and Sheila Namahe was part of this gold trade crime as some transactions were issued to their account.

The media investigators also stated that the company, Maxim advocates was not just warning them of lawful consequences they were to face if they acted contrary but were rather issuing commands to them to stop their flow up on this matter .

Statement from Maxim advocates to media investigators;

“Let us be clear, Sheila Namahe and Isaac Ssemakadde do not know Tanner Edward, and there is no link whatsoever between him and Maxim advocates, it’s clients, or it’s partners. Any suggestions or implications to the contrary are false, malicious and actionable under the data protection and privacy act, among other laws of Uganda” The management of Maxim advocates wrote to the NBS investigators.

“We demand that you:

1. Immediately abandon your plans to publish the intended defamatory and unlawful content ;

2. Cease and desist from publishing any further defamatory and unlawful content regarding our firm, it’s partners and it’s clients; and

3. Provide a written undertaking to respect the privacy and reputation of our firm, it’s partners and clients.” Maxim advocates said to the media investigators.