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MBALE, UGANDA: Retired High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene has passed on, the Judiciary announced Sunday evening.
According to the announcement, His Lordship Musene died in Mbale Sunday evening.
“This is to announce the death of retired Judge of the High Court Wilson Masalu Musene that occurred this evening in Mbale. Funeral arrangements to be announced later. May He Rest in Eternal Peace,” a statement issued by the Judiciary read on Sunday evening.
The late Musene retired from judicial service in 2021 after clocking 65 years although the Constitution allowed him three more extra months to wind up any pending chamber work.
Judge Musene was among the four Ugandan legal officers whom the United States Government in August 2020 imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions over the alleged involvement in activities that victimised young children in a corrupt adoption scheme.
The other three sanctioned alongside him included Justice Moses Mukiibi, Dorah Mirembe an advocate and her husband, Patrick Ecobu.
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in its 2020 statement noted that the trio participated in a scam that saw young children removed from their families in Uganda and placed into a corrupt adoption network, aided by the facilitation of officials.