Rwandan fugitive dies in SA hotel

Patrick Karegeya, who has been living as a fugitive from Rwandan justice for the last six years following an international arrest warrant, was on January 1 found dead in  Michelangelo Towers, an upmarket hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton in South Africa.

Friday, January 03, 2014

Patrick Karegeya, who has been living as a fugitive from Rwandan justice for the last six years following an international arrest warrant, was on January 1 found dead in  Michelangelo Towers, an upmarket hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton in South Africa.The circumstances leading to his death remain unknown.The South African police said they were conducting investigations."We are waiting for the findings of the investigation to know what happened,” Rwanda’s High commissioner in South Africa Vincent Karega told The New Times yesterday.Karegeya, who served in the Rwandan Defence Forces but later stripped of his rank of Colonel, was a fugitive of justice after a military court in January, 2011, handed him a jail term of 20 years in absentia for disturbing public order, threatening state security and criminal conspiracy, among others.