EACC freezes accounts of City Hall employee with Sh643.2 million
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has obtained orders suspending Sh643.2 million in unexplained assets associated with a City Hall subordinate.
His assets include land, vehicles, residences, and millions of dollars in various bank accounts, as well as M pesa and Sh898,000 in cash.
They are worth Sh643,213,688.12 in total.
“That in the interim, an order of injunction be and is hereby issued restraining the respondents, their agents, servants, or any other person from alienating, selling, charging, developing, disposing of, wasting or in any other way dealing with the motor vehicles and land,” court documents dated September 13, 2023, read.
The court also prohibited any transfer, waste, withdrawal, or use of the bank account funds.
EACC has also requested the forfeiture of Sh643.2 million, a portion of the aforementioned unexplained wealth accumulated between January 1, 2016, and October 31, 2022.
EACC filed a petition seeking the orders to have the amount forfeited to the government after carrying out an investigation that established that the staffer was earning a net salary of Sh55,866.75 monthly.
This prompted inquiries regarding the accumulation of assets whose value exceeded his known legitimate source of income.
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“It is reasonably suspected that the above-stated properties were acquired through corruption and the same should be forfeited to the government of Kenya and the difference in value should be paid to the government of Kenya as prayed,” the petition by EACC reads.
The Commission initiated its investigation after obtaining information indicating that the employee engaged in corrupt behavior between 2016 and 2022.
During the investigation, EACC also determined that the officer was registered as a Director with multiple private companies.
The Commission determined that the monies suspected to have been acquired through the reported corrupt conduct were received and channeled through bank accounts in the officer’s name and the names of companies associated with him, as well as the names of his family members, including his spouse and children.
This was determined through an examination of bank statements.
“Considering the 1st respondent’s net salary of Sh55,866.75 per month, the frequent inter-account transfers and intermingling of funds, the large and frequent deposits into his bank account and those of the companies associated with him, raises questionable suspicion that the monies could have been obtained through corrupt conduct,” EACC said in the court documents.
EACC freezes accounts of City Hall employee with Sh643.2 million