Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted man, is arrested
But questions remain over how the Rwandan evaded the law for so long
THE TRAP had been set. American and Kenyan investigators were in position outside a house in a smart Nairobi suburb. But Rwanda’s most notorious fugitive never showed up. When police finally burst in two days later they found not their target, Félicien Kabuga, but blood-spattered walls and the partially acid-dissolved corpse of William Munuhe, an FBI informant. An enterprising hack, Munuhe had promised to lure Mr Kabuga to his house under the pretext of discussing a business deal in exchange for the $5m reward promised by the State Department.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The man who wasn’t there”
Middle East & Africa May 23rd 2020
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