Uganda to US adoption scam: judges and lawyers sanctioned

Alice McCool - The Guardian

"The US has imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions on two Ugandan judges and two lawyers over their part in an international adoption scam involving more than 30 children," says this article from the Guardian. "A US State Department statement said [lawyer Dorah Mirembe] had promised vulnerable Ugandan families their children would go to schools in Kampala, but instead they were taken to an unlicensed children’s home for adoption by American families. Mirembe and [lawyer Patrick Ecobu] then facilitated bribes to Ugandan judges and other government officials, including judges [Moses Mukiibi and Wilson Musalu Musene]."