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The trial hearings start on September 16, 2022. Former Rwandan Minister of State for Culture, Edouard Bamporiki is being prosecuted for corruption. He will be tried from September 16. Mr. Bamporiki was suspended from the government on May 5 and placed under house arrest for his alleged involvement in corruption cases. “The hearing is set for September 16 at the Nyarugenge intermediate court. He is suspected of having committed the crime of soliciting and receiving an illegal advantage (bribery),” said Harrison Mutabazi, spokesperson for the Rwandan Ministry of Justice, on Wednesday August 31. The Rwanda Bureau of Investigation (RIB) preferred to indict Bamporiki for having solicited, accepted or offered an illegal advantage, a crime provided for and punished by article 04 of the law on the fight once morest corruption in the country. from East Africa. The mentioned article provides that any person who solicits, accepts or receives, by any means whatsoever, an illegal advantage for himself or another person, or accepts a promise in order to render or omit a service in within the framework of his mandate, or uses his position to render or omit a service, commits an offence. With regard to punitive measures, the law stipulates that if convicted, he is liable to imprisonment for more than five years but not more than seven years, together with a fine of three to five times the value of the unlawful advantage sought and received. Apart from his political career, Bamporiki is a filmmaker. “Long Coat” is one of his most famous films. He tells the story of a survivor of the 1994 genocide and that of the son of a perpetrator.

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