By TV10 Investigative Desk.
An investigation carried out by this website over allegations of a secret ponzi scheme through which hundreds of Chinese Nationals have been lured into Uganda, for a fee of fifty thousand dollars by a cartel of Chinese kingpins, has been unearthed .
This follows a tip off from one of the cartel members ( names withheld ) following a disagreement by his boss in October last year. According to the source, the cartel opened business in the late 90’s, initially using a food chain business as a conduit for its operations.
The owners of this food hub, once frequented by the high and mighty most especially with government and security links, used a feigned ploy of claiming that they only needed chefs and working party with Chinese origin to run their business efficiently.
Indeed, the cartel boss managed to ‘ship’ in about 30 Chinese, through Entebbe airport, as a trial route run for feasibility study purposes. With the success of this first project the cartel bosses then expanded business by opening up other branches along Kampala, Jinja road and in Kololo.
After this, the Chinese in a bid to ship in more numbers, entered the film making industry, again this project needed this time hundreds of expatriates of the same origin. However, there was a hidden gem in these shipments ad each Chinese brought into the country would attract about $50k.
The Ploy of Chain Recruitment;
The Cartel initially targets male Chinese with families or those that are newly engaged.
This is later translates into that male individual on settling in, requesting that his family joins him as he works.
With this comes a round another 5 people at most , whom the same cartels will earn about 20k dollars from their mother investment made.
This will evolve into $100k for the cartel bosses each time the sequence is repeated.
Eventually, the once cartel security secured immigrants later graduate into the system and also assume authority.
This has now created a pool of hundreds of Chinese break away cartels who have heavily infiltrated the local industrial hubs in Uganda where they now earn millions of dollars every year.
Many a dispute has erupted within the Chinese – Uganda underground world cartel network that has even claimed lives.
One of the most recent such gruesome incidents happened on July 7 2024, when Yang Wenli who operated business at Haidah Plaza along Ben Kiwanuka Street in Kampala, was murdered by a fellow Chinese businessman Yang Tiangang in what has been described as a complex murder.
The murder was allegedly assisted by Dai Jie, an employee for Wenli.
It is said that on the fateful day in the evening, Tiangang, the key suspect in the murder went to Wenli’s shop along Ben Kiwanuka Street and demanded for his money and in the ensuing argument, they fought.
Another line of investigation shows that Wenli and Tiangang had a business wrangle that escalated on the fateful day.
Wenli was killed, body cut into pieces and stuffed into and dumped in Mabira forest. This incident is one of the eye openers of the chinese underground human shipping cartel in Uganda.
