En kenyansk domstol bestemte tirsdag at den folkemordetterlyste Felicien Kabuga ikke lenger skal få inntektene fra sine eiendommer i Kenya, som er omfattende. Avkastningen har gått til en belgisk bankkonto i konas navn.

Kabuga har lyktes i å unnslippe politi mange ganger, trolig fordi han har kontakter som gjør at han blir varslet. Han er en av de viktigste bakmennene for folkemordet på tutsier og moderate hutuer som er på frifot.

The United States has placed a five-million-dollar bounty on the head of Kabuga, who has been on the run for years since being indicted by the ICTR for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The Tanzania-based ICTR has said it is closing in on the fugitive, its most high-profile suspect still at large more than a decade after the genocide.

Kenya, where Kabuga allegedly found protection from senior officials in the government of former president Daniel arap Moi, denies Kabuga is in the country and has pledged to arrest him if he is found there.

The UN-backed tribunal has grown increasingly frustrated with Kenya for its failure to catch the suspect despite clear evidence that Kabuga is a frequent visitor to the country.
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Kabuga, an ethnic Hutu, has been accused of being a key financier and supplying machetes and other weapons to take part in the massacre of 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, within four months in 1994.

Born in 1935, the wealthy businessman is said to be a frequent traveller in various African nations where he buys protection. The court’s move on Tuesday will choke the much-needed funds for that purpose.

He was thrown out of Switzerland in 1994, and spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo before seeking refuge in Kenya, where he has escaped several attempts to arrest him.

Kabuga escaped arrest here in 1998, when an ICTR team raided a Nairobi house allegedly rented from a nephew of the now-retired Moi and found a note indicating the fugitive had been tipped off by Kenyan police.

Kenya wins control of Rwanda genocide fugitive’s estate