Rumonge : two suspected fuel traffickers arrested
Innocent Hatungimana and Emmanuel Nkurunziza were arrested on Tuesday night around midnight. The two men were intercepted by soldiers first, before being handed over to the police in Rumonge (southwest Burundi). They are suspected of illegally trading fuel.
INFO SOS Media Burundi
The vehicle in which the two individuals were traveling was carrying 60 cans of gasoline with a capacity of 2980 liters. According to our sources, the arrested persons came from neighboring Tanzania. Soldiers intercepted them in the locality of Gitamba. It is in the Kigwena zone, in the district and province of Rumonge.
The two men are held in police cells in the provincial town center. According to our sources, they should appear in a flagrante delicto trial for “undermining the national economy”.
The vehicle they were using was seized by the local police.
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Innocent Hatungimana and Emmanuel Nkurunziza, the two men detained by the Rumonge police, DR
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