The Director f Public Prosecutions Noordin Hajji has unearthed an intricate web of how corrupt Cabinet Secretaries swindle tax-payers’ billions through phony ‘International’ companies.
The DPP uncovered the truth after a recent trip to Italy whereby he got hold of details on how firms winning Government contracts were directly linked to the CSs.
Investigations at advanced stages
“The investigations are at a very advanced stage. What we were surprised about is the level of rot. We award tenders to international companies only to discover they belong to locals.” disclosed a member of the team that toured Italy with the DPP.
The team noted that Kenyans missed out on great opportunities to register and be allocated these tenders courtesy of the proxy companies that benefited abroad.
Seeking compensation
The Standard reported that one of the companies that were discovered is among those seeking compensation for payments in one of the projects that are under investigations.
“It is disturbing that the CSs are linked to the companies under probe in multi-billion-shilling projects that have stalled,” one member of the team commented.
“This is denying Kenyans opportunities to get Government tenders, especially when the companies in question are international with local roots,” the team member divulged.
CSs to be investigated
The DPP and the team further unearthed that one firm belonging to one of the Cabinet Secretaries registered international directors to oversee the firm’s operations.
The CSs were to be investigated by a dedicated team to get to the root of the problem.
The teams deployed were Ethics and Anti-Corruption (EACC), the office of Attorney General (AG), DPP, Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and Assets Recovery Agency.