{{German media has reported that war crimes trial of Ignace Murwanashyaka and Straton Musoni, President and 1 Vice President of FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), could reportedly continue.}}
The challenge for bias against the defense of the senate at the German based Stuttgart Higher Regional Court in connection with the handing over of evidence to the UN, which had caused a disruption of the hearing had been denied and the trial may resume.
Musoni’s passport though long since expired – should be introduced as evidence, as the exhibit of rough diamonds from Musoni.
Concerns of rough diamond have been found during the search warrant for Musoni’s arrest in November 2009.
Its alleged Musoni in 2000, was at the time of founding of the FDLR in DR-Congo and in Zambia. The envelopes found with rough diamonds would come from Zambia, not from the DR-Congo.
German based media reported Straton Musoni, accused before the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart, worked from 2005 to July 2008 as a computer expert in the Ministry of Justice of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
He was noticed in security checks only when the FDLR militia became a topic in German media. A year later, on 12 July 2009, he boasted himself to have used the office service telephone for FDLR activities.
“I’m a real daredevil,” says Musoni on 12 June 2009 during a conversation with another exiled Rwandan. The intercepted telephone conversation was submitted as evidence in the ongoing trial against FDLR President Ignace Musoni and Murwanashyaka before the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart on 13 June.
“You know, it is difficult to use mobile phone,” says Musoni to his friend. “But then why do I have the service telephone? I have used it for two hours … I called on the expensive satellite phone, and the bill was 800 €. How the government pays the bill, I do not know.”
“If one asks about the phone calls, I’ll say: Forgive me. But no one has told me that until I left there, and I know they will not know that, because I know that phone numbers don’t appear in the bills were. You see, a ministry has a bill of 2,000 € and you alone have called for 1,000 €. ”
But don’t play the same game in the next job, advises Musoni’s friend. “It was suicide,” admits Musoni. “Yes, it was suicide,” warns his friend, adding: “If your wife finds out, you divorce …”
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