According to reports, Katungi, Dimitrov, Asdumo and Subiro have been collaborating to smuggle drugs and sell weapons to the CNJG, contrary to international laws.
Uganda’s former Deputy Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Katungi Mpeirwe is wanted by the US government in the alleged connection to a sh214.6bn arms smuggling racket.
Katungi is alleged to be operating with two accomplices from Kenya and Tanzania, and their unnamed Bulgarian said to be at the head of the team.
They are suspected to be secretly dealing in weapons including anti aircraft missiles which they allegedly sell to the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CNJG), a drug dealing group and, according to the American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), one of the most dangerous and most feared group of Mexico’s drug dealers.
On February 20, 2025, the CJNG was declared to be a group of terrorists according to the US law governing foreigners entering the US.
But Katungi rubbished all the claims levelled against him, saying it is the usual trash of reports made against Ugandans especially with regard to the DR Congo; after scrutinizing the matter, they will reverse these lies, he noted.
According to reports, Katungi, Dimitrov, Asdumo and Subiro have been collaborating to smuggle drugs and sell weapons to the CNJG, contrary to international laws. It is further stated that they began with smuggling 50 AK-47 guns purported to have been bought by Tanzania, but ended up in the hands of the CNJG.
In the latest deal it was further reported, they have been handling the multi-billion shillings deal of supplying them with the ‘military grade’ weapons including anti-air craft missiles of the ZU-23. Dmitrov is said to have spent 25 years in this business, and is said to have approached his associate Asumo to secure an End-User-Certificate (EUC) from any nation bold enough to accept being the owner of the consignment.
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This is where Katungi is said to have come on board, and he in turn approached Mwapinga the Tanzanian who secured the said certificate alleging that the consignment belonged to Tanzania but ended up in CNJG camp.
Dmitrov was arrested by the Spanish police in Madrid, Asumo was arrested by the Moroccan police in Casablanca while Mwapinga is detained in Accra, Ghana. They were all arrested on April 8, 2025. Katungi is still at large.
The case of the four is being handled by the head of prosecution in the US state of Virginia Erik S. Siebert and the head of operations in the DEA Louis A. D’Ambrosio.