Opposition leader Raila Odinga's 'relative' has been dragged into a gold scam, in which a South African businessman allegedly lost about sh200 million in Uganda.
Reports by Daily Monitor indicated that one of the fraudsters who defrauded businessman Weignew Dessie introduced himself as a relative to the ODM leader.
Suspects in the scheme, including a Nairobi-based businessman, Lawrence Malong Lual have been locked up in Kampala.
Malong, who always uploads photos of himself covered in money, is allegedly the mastermind that led Dessie to lose the money.
He lost the money while attempting to buy gold from Malong and his partners.
The businessman claimed that during one time, Malong introduced him to Owino, who introduced himself as a senior official.
Daily Monitor reports that he was supposed to help him in the transfer of gold which had been shipped from Kampala to Nairobi instead of Dubai by mistake.
The newspaper also indicated that when Owino was contacted, in order for him to facilitate the money transfer, he claimed to be busy in campaigning as he was running for president in Kenya.
He added that he had no time to travel to Uganda.
