ISS Today: Kenya must do more than just find the money By ISS Today issafrica
In some cases, the foreign accomplices of Kenyan suspects have faced justice in the UK and Jersey, and paid fines for their involvement in illegal activities. A Jersey firm that traded with former cabinet minister Chris Okemo, and former Kenya Power managing director Samuel Gichuru, pleadedin 2016 to four counts of laundering the proceeds of crime between July 1999 and October 2001. Over $3.8-million is set to be recovered.
In the Chickengate scandal, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office carried out investigations that led to sanctions against British firms. These included Smith & Ouzman, a ballot printing company, which was found guilty of paying out bribes – codenamed “chicken” – to Kenyan officials to secure election-related deals.
On another front in Kenyatta’s diplomatic offensive, top security officials travelled to London in 2018 in a bid to repatriate unexplained wealth held in the UK by Kenyans.Kenya wants to exploit the UK’s ‘unexplained wealth’ legislation to recover the money,” said Kenya’s Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji.
In 2018 Nigeria pursued a similar strategy, recovering $322-million from the Swiss government that had been stolen by former military ruler Sani Abacha. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari obtained support from the US, UK, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, world security agencies and friendly nations in his fight against corruption.
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