By Mubiru Ivan
City Businessman Mukesh Shukla alias Shumuk has today appeared before Buganda Road Magistrates Court and charged over forgery.
Shukla was briefly arrested yesterday by police after musician Angela Katatumba accused him of forging signatures and uttering false documents in a property dispute with her late father Bonny Katatumba.
The Chief Executive Officer of Shumuk Aluminum Industries was charged with six counts of forgery, six counts of uttering false documents and one count of conspiracy to commit a felony.
Prosecution told court that Shukla and others still at large on April 17, 2015 in Kampala, with intent to defraud or deceive, forged a letter for official handover of Hotel Diplomate in Muyenga, a Kampala suburb, purporting to have been signed by the late Katatumba.
According to Daily Monitor, the state prosecutor further revealed that the businessman also allegedly forged signatures of Anne Grace Katatumba, Angella Katatumba, Rugirwa Katatumba, Ian Katatumba and ASP George William Karyegira which he would later use to utter false documents for the official handover of the hotel in question.
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