French police have arrested a man accused of funding militias that massacred hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda 1994 genocide.
The French Justice Ministry said police arrested Felicien Kabuga near Paris Saturday after 26 years on the run.
Kabuga, once one of Rwanda’s wealthiest men, was indicted in 1997 on a charge of genocide and six other criminal counts, according to an international tribunal established by the United Nations.
Kabuga, a Hutu businessman who had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head, allegedly funded the purchases of large quantities of machetes and agricultural tools that were used as weapons during the genocide, a U.N. news website said.
The justice ministry said Kabuga will appear before the Paris appeal court before being brought in front of the international court in The Hague.