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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) confirms that it has concluded its investigations on allegations of embezzlement of funds in Rwanda Chess Federation (FERWADE) and the case is now with prosecution.<\/p>\n

This comes after RIB recently confirmed that the Federation\u2019s former President Ben Tom Zimurinda was arrested on February 22, 2022 suspected to have embezzled funds of the Federation.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was detained at Kicukiro RIB Station as investigations were going on.<\/p>\n

The RIB spokesperson, Thierry Murangira, on Friday, March 4, told Times Sport that \u201cthe case file has been submitted to Prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murangira said the case file was submitted on March 1. The charges, he noted, are embezzlement.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) confirms that it has concluded its investigations on allegations of embezzlement of funds in Rwanda Chess Federation (FERWADE) and the case is now with prosecution. This comes after RIB recently confirmed that the Federation\u2019s former President Ben Tom Zimurinda was arrested on February 22, 2022 suspected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"\nProsecution takes over case of former chess federation president - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) confirms that it has concluded its investigations on allegations of embezzlement o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prosecution takes over case of former chess federation president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) confirms that it has concluded its investigations on allegations of embezzlement o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-04T16:24:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-04T16:49:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/03\/img-622242f16122b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"824\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Prosecution takes over case of former chess federation president\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-04T16:24:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-04T16:49:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/03\/img-622242f16122b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/prosecution-takes-over-case-of-former-chess-federation-president\",\"name\":\"Prosecution takes over case of former chess federation president - 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