
The High Court in Mbale ordered United Bank for Africa (UBA) Limited to pay more than Shs 128 million to Michael Wilson, a Ugandan man whose injury compensation from work in Afghanistan was fraudulently withdrawn from an account opened in his name by an impostor, according to The Observer. Justice Farouq Lubega issued the order.
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