The assistant commissioner of police and head of community policing department, Anatoli Muleterwa, unlawfully sold the vehicle stolen from Makerere University’s main library in 2008, where it had been parked for a paltry $267.50 (one million shillings), Daily Monitor reported.
The outlet stated that in the June 10 judgment, Justice Lydia Mugambe of Kampala High Court, observed that the “auctioning of the car in question, a pick-up, was done at the time when its search was on and that the Assistant Commissioner of Police was fully aware of its search.”
“I find that the 2nd respondent (Muleterwa), a police officer, who was fully aware of the search operation for the lost car at the material time, was grossly involved in the misappropriation of the plaintiff’s car.
The plaintiff’s car was sold to the 2nd defendant’s wife illegally,” the judge ruled, the outlet reported.
Muleterwa said due process was followed before the vehicle was auctioned and that he had applied and was granted a court warrant for the disposal of the vehicle and other unclaimed properties.
