{"id":38789,"date":"2018-12-06T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=38789"},"modified":"2018-12-06T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:01:42","slug":"us-court-convicts-sam-kutesa-accomplice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/us-court-convicts-sam-kutesa-accomplice\/","title":{"rendered":"US court convicts Sam Kutesa accomplice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Moses Kyeyune.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A US court has convicted Patrick Ho Chi Ping, the man accused of compromising Uganda\u2019s Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecution convinced the court on Wednesday that Ho Chi Ping, aged 69 bribed Kutesa with $500, 000 (Shs1.8 billion), with bribery, according to\u00a0<em>The Straits Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The convict allegedly offered the bribe<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0and gifts to President Museveni<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0to secure support for China Energy Fund Committee, a Shanghai-based rising star of China&#8217;s energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>He is said to have wired the bribe from a Hong Kong account of the energy NGO to Deuts<strong>c<\/strong>he Bank based in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of Foreign Affairs has in the past come out to defend MrKutesa over the bribery claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Kyeyune. A US court has convicted Patrick Ho Chi Ping, the man accused of compromising Uganda\u2019s Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Prosecution convinced the court on Wednesday that Ho Chi Ping, aged 69 bribed Kutesa with $500, 000 (Shs1.8 billion), with bribery, according to\u00a0The Straits Times. The convict allegedly offered the bribe,\u00a0and gifts to President Museveni,\u00a0to secure support for China Energy Fund Committee, a Shanghai-based rising star of China&#8217;s energy industry. He is said to have wired the bribe from a Hong Kong account of the energy NGO to Deutsche Bank based in New York. The ministry of Foreign Affairs has in the past come out to defend MrKutesa over the bribery claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}