‘Filthy’ rich Malong Yor locked in prison in Uganda before ‘delivering’ food to Turkana

When one mention Malong Yor Jnr, what comes to mind is dollars and chest thumping.

South Sudan mogul Lawrence Malong Jnr has been remanded to Luzira Prison until April 4, for defrauding an Ethiopian businessman of Ksh 200 million through gold deal gone bad.

Malong was remanded alongside Congolose Mike Lota Okitalunyi and Gavana T. Zikusoka, a Ugandan businessman by Buganda Road court Grade One Magistrate Ketty Acaya.

Court heard that they obtained the money from Dessie Wagnew, an Ethiopian by falsely pretending that they were selling to him 150kg of gold.

It is alleged that Wagnew met Malong through a friend who told him that Malong had a gold trading licence. The friend also told Wagnew that Malong can help him export gold to Dubai and Hong-Kong.

Swiftly, Wagnew loaned his house in South Africa for $1.9million which he used to finance the deal.

Malong however, failed to deliver the said gold even after receiving the money.

Lawrence Malong has been in the headlines latetly for his controversial money and gold.

He offered to help Turkana people fighting hunger using his fleet of tracks.

After watching the poor pics and videos of the children and old men of #turkana dieing of hunger have odered my trucks to stop all mining activities and fill them with food and go to #turkana effective from tomorrow pic.twitter.com/Kt1oJNNXpc

— Lawrence Lual Malong Yor Jr (@LualJr) March 17, 2019