Gitega: the second level of the Supreme Court upheld the life prison sentence against former Burundian Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni
The President of the Supreme Court Emmanuel Gateretse notified him of the decision this Thursday at the Gitega central prison where Alain Guillaume Bunyoni is detained since July 2023. INFO SOS Médias Burundi
The sentence upheld by the appeal judge of Burundi’s highest court was communicated this Thursday, June 27 to the former Hutu rebel in a public hearing. In addition to life imprisonment, Alain Guillaume Bunyoni will also have to pay a fine amounting to 22,713,000,000 Burundian francs.
“All Bunyoni property which has not been declared by June 3, 2021 will be confiscated for reasons of public utility,” decided the second-degree judge.
This date corresponds to the day when Alain Guillaume Bunyoni declared his assets, a practice that President Évariste Ndayishimiye minimizes until now.
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Three co-accused of Mr. Bunyoni, namely the former commander of the riot police, police colonel Désiré Uwamahoro, the former executive of the SNR (National Intelligence Service) Samuel Destiné Bapfumukeko and the former engineer of Bunyoni, Côme Niyonsaba also saw their 15-year prison sentence renewed by the second judge.
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