Tanzania: Pay the Fine or Go to Jail, Court Tells Bus Owner

THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday sentenced Princes Muro Buses' owner, Majid Abdallah Kimaro, alias Muro, to eight years imprisonment or pay 115m/- fine for leading organised crime and money laundering in a criminal racket involving 26,875.52 litres of fuel.

Principal Resident Magistrate Thomas Simba imposed such sentence to the businessman after convicting him on his own plea of guilty to the two counts.

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