Bad Black's Meddie Sentongo out of prison

Jul 23, 2013

Meddie Sentongo, a Kampala business man and former boyfriend to city socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa a.k.a Bad black Tuesday morning walked to freedom after serving 18-month jail.

By Vision Reporter

Meddie Sentongo, a Kampala business man and former boyfriend to city socialite Shanita Namuyimbwa a.k.a Bad Black, Tuesday morning walked to freedom after serving an 18-month jail sentence in Luzira Prison.


As he walked out of the prisons gate, Sentongo told a New Vision journalist he was "very happy to regain my freedom”.

Anti-Corruption Court Judge Catherine Bamugemereire on July 12, 2012 sentenced Bad Black to four years in prison after convicting her of fraud. On his part, Ssentongo was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment over the same.

Black was convicted for embezzling US$3.9m from the company she jointly owned with her ex-lover, a British engineer, David Greenhalgh.
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Meddie Ssentongo chats with his famliy and friends. PHOTO/Nicholas Oneal

She was also jointly convicted with Meddie on two counts of conspiracy to defraud.

Black and Meddie were pinned in the court by evidence given by the acquaintances whose help they sought in their fraudulent quest as well as accountants and bank officials.

The Judge noted that when Meddie needed documentation with a semblance of professionalism to convince Greenhalgh to wire money, "he naturally defaulted to the back street engineering firm to which prosecution witness Peter Michael Lule belonged…."

The documentation concerned the Bill of quantities and Lule attributed its authorship to Alkon (U) Ltd on advice of Meddie who wanted it to be associated with a stronger brand of Alcon.

"The documentation was needed to convince Greenhalgh to send US$8m to Daveshan Developments company" from which he and Black would siphon it.

Black was the only signatory to the company because Greenhalgh was far away in Britain.

The judge noted that although the US$8m did not come, the US$3.9m that was wired there was taken off by Black and at the same time, an equivalent of the withdrawn dollars would be deposited on Meddie's account by her.

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