DCI Investigates Cash Transfers to Pastor Ezekiel’s Accounts
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Pastor Ezekiel Odero of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church is the subject of a money laundering investigation because of his connections to Pastor Paul Mackenzie.
Mackenzie is one of the parties under investigation in connection with a starvation cult that has resulted in at least 109 deaths in Kenya.
Detectives claim that large sums of money suspected to be the proceeds of illegal cash have been transferred into Pastor Ezekiel’s bank accounts from victims who were allegedly radicalized into selling their homes and then giving the proceeds to Pastor Ezekiel.
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The money was allegedly transferred from victims who were radicalized into selling their homes and then giving the proceeds to Pastor Ezekiel.
They want the court to permit them to access multiple bank accounts. At Equity Bank, Co-op Bank, KCB, and HFC Bank.
Martin Munene, a police officer attached to DCI. Claims that they are concerned that the money held in the aforementioned accounts. Will be transferred if the court does not issue the necessary orders to access the accounts.
This concern is based on the fact that the court has not yet issued the necessary orders to access the accounts.
According to the affidavit that Munene submitted, “The investigations will enable the applicant to collate confirmatory evidence. Regarding the financial flow as per the allegations.”
They are asking the court to issue orders. That will be in effect for thirty days while the investigations are still taking place.
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