No more Kenyan revenues for the most wanted suspect in Rwanda's genocide, Felicien Kabuga. The authorities in Nairobi on Tuesday froze Kabuga's property in the capitol. The prosperous Hutu entrepreneur is accused of financing the 1994 bloodshed.

Rwandan fugitive Felicien Kabuga collects rent from his villas in the Kenyan capitol. It is also believed that he, together with his wife Josephine Mukazitoni, is owner, shareholder and director in several companies registered in Kenya. The profits were transferred from a local bank to an account in Belgium registered to the couple's daughter.

Financing genocide
Felicien Kabuga is believed to be the main supporter and financier of the Interahamwe militia that killed some 800.000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu during the 1994 massacres. He bankrolled the Hutu militias who wielded their machetes during the 100-day genocidal frenzy.

Kabuga is accused of using his vast assets to propel the massacres by affording a platform to disseminate the message of ethnic hatred through the foundation of a radio station, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). Besides he provided weapons, uniforms, and transportation to the Interahamwe.

Through his company Kabuga is alleged to have made massive purchases of machetes, hoes, and other agricultural implements knowing that they would be used as weapons of murder.

Political influence
Kabuga is also accused of exercising considerable influence over radical political party members, militiamen, and the local authorities as their main financier and backer. It is these local authorities and militiamen, together with members of the military, who massacred the Tutsi population and moderate Hutu in Rwanda.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha is seeking him since 1997 for conspiring to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. However, he used his wealth to evade arrest and justice.

"There is enough evidence showing Kabuga is using his substantial wealth, including that generated in Kenya, to avoid capture and assist other fugitives at large to elude capture," said Keriako Tobiko, Kenya's director of public prosecutions when he announced the decision to freeze Kabuga's property. Moreover, Tobiko added that Kabuga had used his money to "substantially interfere" with prosecution witnesses at the Tribunal.

On the run
Kabuga fled Rwanda in July 1994 and sought asylum in Switzerland on a valid visa. Following his deportation there, he was able to fly to the Democratic Republic of Congo before an official complaint against him could be lodged. Since then he is believed to linger in Kenya. Kabuga soon became one of the primary targets of investigations by the ICTR. He managed to escape several times, most probably because Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi protected him.

In 2002 the US offered a reward up to US $ 5.000.000 for any information leading to the capture of Kabuga. Early 2003, Kabuga, again, was able to avoid an attempted arrest by both the Kenyan police and the FBI in Nairobi. The police informer tasked with entrapping Kabuga was found dead later. It is now hoped that that the new financial restrictions on Kabuga brings capture in sight.