23-year-old Polycarp Mugobera, an agent of AIM Global company has been arrested over allegedly defrauding money from youths across Busoga sub-region.
Mugobera was arrested after a group of 14 youths whom he had abandoned in a rented two-roomed house within Budhumbuli cell, Northern division, Jinja city, stormed Bugembe police station seeking help after being threatened to be thrown out by the landlord over accumulated rent arrears.
The youths also claimed they were starving and yet Mugobera had cut off all communication. Apparently, Mugobera always introduces himself as the human resource officer of Global Packs Information Ltd to his unsuspecting victims.
After extorting Shs 900,000 from each
victim, he then poses as the director of Alliance in Motion (AIM)
Global, an organization dealing in the sale of nutritional supplements,
requiring the victims to recruit two members each, where they earn a
commission of Shs 65,000 to purchase nutritional supplements, which they
are instructed to sell within target communities.
Manjeri
Namulemo, a victim from Buyende district stresses that Mugobera tasked
her parents to pay Shs 900,000 with hopes of helping her get a job.
However, he instead abandoned her in a rented room alongside other
unsuspecting victims.
According to police, Mugobera has confessed
that Global Packs Information Limited is his organization, which helps
him to lure recruits into AIM Global. Mugobera explains that all the
victims are encouraged to recruit more members through which they earn
commissions to sustain themselves.
Kiira regional police
spokesperson, James Mubi says that Mugobera and others still at large
first stationed their offices in Soroti city, where they conned
unsuspecting victims throughout Teso sub-region between mid-2021 and
early 2022.
Mubi adds that leaders in Soroti city resolved to
expel Mugobera from their area, after registering endless complaints
from several victims throughout Teso sub-region. Mubi says that Mugobera
decided to shift to Jinja city where he carried on with his extortion.
He adds that the suspect will face two counts of extortion and obtaining
money by false pretense.