Felicien Kabuga, once among Rwanda’s richest businessmen and later accused of helping finance the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, has died in detention while awaiting further legal proceedings before a UN-backed tribunal in The Hague.

A U.N. court says that a Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague.

Félicien Kabuga, som var tiltalt for folkemordet i Rwanda i 1994, er død, opplyser den internasjonale domstolen i Haag.

At the time of his death, he was awaiting release to a country willing to take him.