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Police have arrested a 23-year old man for allegedly forging several documents including bankslips and stamps which he used to con students of their school frees.
Bosco Nkundabera Alias Rasta a resident of Kabeza village, Ruli cell of Shyogwe sector was apprehended on August 16 following detailed police investigation.
Security agencies learnt of the forged documents and tracked them to the source which happened to be Nkundabera’s home in Kabeza village.
Police investigators also toed the suspect to a time when they caught him and found him red-handed selling a forged bankslip to a student at an equivalent of Rwf13, 000.
Police also found him with 24 forged bankslips baring logs of three commercial banks, four fake stamps of schools and a printer.
“He used to tell students and parents that he works for an organization called EPR that pays half the school fees for the students. He could ask them to give him the remaining half pretending that he wanted to bank all the money at once and in return he could give the parent or student a forged bankslip,” said the Southern Region Police spokesperson Inspector of Police (IP) Emmanuel Kayigi.
Some of the copies of forgeries found at his house were dated as way back as 2014 while the total amount on all 24 forged bankslip totaled to over Rwf500, 000.
The suspect is currently held at Nyamabuye Police Station as police investigates the case further.
IP Kayigi warned the public against using shoddy means of saving money and using falsified legal documents and instruments adding that “even those that acquired the slips from the suspect are party to the case since ignorance of law is no defense.”
“Our security organs are well coordinated to an extent that no one can walk away after committing any form of crime. Forgery is an offense that is punishable by law,” said IP Kayigi.
He explained that the suspect will be charged with forgery or alteration of documents under article 609 of the penal code.
It states that “any person who forges or alters documents by forged signature or fingerprint, falsifying documents or signatures or impersonation, forging agreements, its provisions, obligations, discharged obligations shall be liable to a term of imprisonment of more than five years to seven years and a fine of Rwf300, 000 to Rwf3 million.”
