{"id":3862,"date":"2021-11-04T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/crackdown-12-including-police-officer-arrested-over-soliciting-bribes-fraud"},"modified":"2021-11-04T14:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:19:01","slug":"crackdown-12-including-police-officer-arrested-over-soliciting-bribes-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/crackdown-12-including-police-officer-arrested-over-soliciting-bribes-fraud","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown: 12, Including Police Officer, Arrested Over Soliciting Bribes, Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda National Police (RNP) has arrested twelve men belonging to the same ring, who were fraudulently soliciting money from people, who registered for driving tests, promising to get them driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n

They include seven Police officers, who were conniving with five driving school instructors to defraud candidates, who registered to do driving tests. The group was paraded to the media on Wednesday, November 3, at Kigali Metropolitan headquarters in Remera, Gasabo District.<\/p>\n

Sergeant Twagirashema Augustin, who has been serving in RNP for the last 13 years is among those arrested.<\/p>\n

He, together with other Police officers at different ranks, alongside the driving school instructors, were forming a syndicate targeting people, who registered for driving tests, making them believe that tests are hard to pass and that they can facilitate them if they paid a certain amount of money.<\/p>\n

Some of the Police officers like Sgt Twagirashema, were arrested on sites where they had been deployed to supervise driving tests.<\/p>\n

Jean De dieu Nshimiyimana is among the five arrested driving school instructors. He said: \u201cI was arrested on Monday, November 1, for allegedly collaborating with a Police officers to solicit bribes from candidates doing driving tests to help them acquired a driver\u2019s license.\u201d<\/p>\n

Information on the ring, Police said, was shared by one of the people, whom they had approached.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had successfully registed to do driving tests, but they told me that it was not easy to get a permit without paying some money. They first demanded Frw300,000 but we later agreed Frw100,000, which I paid them,\u201d said one of the candidates (names withheld).<\/p>\n

\u201cLater, I realized that what I had done was wrong and contrary to the law. I decided to report to the Police.\u201d<\/p>\n

RNP spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera said that the Police acted on the information provided by concerned residents to identify and arrest the suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese seven Police officers were taking money from candidates and were using the five school instructors as their brokers,\u201d said CP Kabera. \u201cInvestigations revealed that these Police officers were also adding names of people, who either failed or did not do the driving tests, on the list of those who passed. Some of those marked as passed did not even go to the driving test sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

CP Kabera urged the public to be vigilant and avoid criminal shortcuts to pay extra amount of money.<\/p>\n

He further warned against both soliciting and offering bribes are punishable by law.<\/p>\n

All the suspects were handed over to RIB for further legal process<\/p>\n

Article 4 of the law N\u00b0 54\/2018 of 13\/08\/2018 on fighting against corruption states that any person who offers, solicits, accepts or receives, by any means, an illegal benefit for himself\/ herself or another person or accepts a promise in order to render or omit a service under his or her mandate or uses his or her position to render or omit a service, commits an offence.<\/p>\n

Upon conviction, he\/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than five (5) years but not more than even (7) years with a fine of three (3) to five (5) times the value of the illegal benefit offered, solicited or received.<\/p>\n

In article 174 of the law determining offenses and penalties in general states that; any person who, by deception, obtains another person\u2019s property, whole or part of his\/her finance by use of false names or qualifications, or who offers positive promises or who threatens of future misfortunes, commits an offence.<\/p>\n

Upon conviction, he\/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than two (2) years and not more than three (3) years, and a fine of not less than Frw3 million and not more than Frw5 million.<\/p>\n

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