Corruption scandals follow one another in Kenya. This time it is the Chief Registrar of the Kenyan Judiciary – the institution that oversees the country’s five highest courts – who is indexed.
With our correspondent in Nairobi, Florence Morice
The complaint was filed by a British citizen working in Dubai in the gold sector. He claims to have been defrauded after having paid the equivalent of 700,000 euros for the purchase of 1,500 kilos of gold ingots, which were never delivered to him. Money paid to the law firm Amadi, named after the chief clerk of the Kenyan judiciary, of which she is the main partner.
The prosecution even claims that the account which would have received four payments in total between September and October 2021 would have been opened by Anne Amadi herself, after her entry into the judiciary. The plaintiff also claims to have received documents proving that the gold he thought he had bought would have been sent to Dubai where he hoped to sell it, before realizing that it was in fact false documents.
In the meantime, the money paid to the law firm would indeed have been withdrawn in cash and by the son of the clerk, according to the prosecution, and this without providing any document required in the context of the fight against money laundering. . The defendants would then have attempted an amicable settlement of the case, in vain…
Without waiting for the first hearing scheduled for next Tuesday, the Nairobi High Court ordered the accounts of the Registrar, as well as those of her son, Brian, and their associates to be frozen.
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