Photos & Video: Ugandan billionaire, Ivan Ssemwanga buried with money and other luxury items

Members of Ugandan businessman Ivan Ssemwanga’s Rich Gang on Tuesday poured expensive champagne and splashed money in his grave before burial.



The group, popular in Uganda and South Africa for its expensive lifestyle, sent-off their leader in a fashion that left mourners amazed.

They popped a bottle of champagne and poured it in the grave and shortly after started splashing money.

The floor of the white and black tiled grave was filled with denominations of Ugandan shillings, South African Rands and US dollars.
A video shared by Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper showed the gang members unmoved as the crowd jeered at the way they splashed money into the grave.
Ivan was known for splashing money at revelers in parties he attended in Uganda.

His Rich Gang crew include his cousin Edward Kyeyune, aka Cheune, who is said to have hosted him the first time he illegally entered South Africa.

Other members of the group include Shafiq Katumba, aka Katsha, and Lawrence Kiyingi, aka King Lawrence.

They group displayed their opulence throughout the activities leading up to the burial and capped it up on the final day.