Joshua Kalebu, a Ugandan engineer, has been accused of fraud worth US$ 8million (EUR 8.2 million) from US authorities. Security sources say US authorities had stationed him in Seattle, Washington state, where he worked as a civil servant. He had been on international arrest warrant. Kalebu was a controversial engineer who ran into problems with National Water and Sewerage Corporation, a water utility monopoly. He and his wife started Kalebu Ltd in 1994, a private water company that provided water to small communities in Uganda. Kalebu introduced the "Cycontrol", a coin actuated public water dispensing system providing a pre-measured volume (20 litres). Ugandan authorities arrested Kalebu on allegations of possession of a false passport. He had dropped Kalebu as his name (in fact, Kalebu was his father's name) He was serving a six months jail sentence when US authorities picked him with help of a relative.

Source: African Church Information Service, 15 Jul 2002