New details emerge about a prison cleaner accused of illegally amassing a fortune worth 257 million Kenyan shillings.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), it remains a mystery how individuals get their millions while working with the country’s law enforcement agencies.
The EACC managed to retrieve his data and available photos through fingerprint analysis, but the person himself remains a mystery.
However, according to the prison department, the cleaner is well known, and they are working with detectives to uncover him.
In addition to the cleaner’s identity, new details reveal how he moved the money silently.
According to details provided to Nairobi Anti-Corruption Court Judge Esther Maina, the cleaner has reportedly transferred millions of dollars through seven companies.
The court documents explained that the cleaners paid Sh51 million to a sanitation company, Sh22 million to an intermediary company, Sh10 million to a logistics company, and Sh10 million to a service in the first transaction. The company paid 13.6 million shillings and 13 million shillings to another logistics company. The company and the others have paid Sh73 million and Sh62 million to other companies.
The anti-graft agency said the cleaners had withdrawn 133 million Kenyan shillings in cash for unspecified purposes.
He then used the remainder to buy property, including land in Kericho, which he registered in his father’s name.
The document says that the cleaner even gave his colleague a luxurious house as a gift.
“He used false documents to benefit himself and his colleagues. He abused his position to give himself an advantage,” the EACC argued.
“He disguised himself as a ghost supplier with the support of his colleagues and used forged documents to plan, implement and grant himself an unconstitutional advantage in violation of the Constitution, the Civil Service Ethics Act and the Act against Corruption and Economic Crime. Civil servants,” the agency argued.
He has been a prison employee since 2009. He was reportedly promoted in 2017 and worked in the purchasing department.
But from the contract he signed, the investigation further revealed that receipts and packing slips were missing, indicating that he only delivered by air.
“The investigation revealed that the companies mentioned above did not deliver rations to their respective prisons, nor did the payment receipts come from the designated prisons.
