One of the suspects in arrested in the Barclays Bank fake money scam has asked the court to summon the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for overstating the case in a bid to tarnish his image.
Eric Otieno Adede, who at the same time confessed that the safe found with the fake Sh2 billion, said over Sh20 billion should be presented in court within 24 hours of the hearing of the filed application.
He claimed that the DCI is using the said sums of money and alleging it to be fake, a fact he knows to be untrue, to publicly boost the public profile of the said office and embarrass him at media briefings.
“The applicant is apprehensive that the DCI might tamper with the aforesaid currency that does not form part of the criminal case thus depriving him of his money,” Adede said.
He claimed that the DCI is using the said sums of money and alleging it to be fake, a fact he knows to be untrue, to publicly boost the public profile of the said office and embarrass him at media briefings.
He has named the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Barclays Bank of Kenya and Director of Public Prosecutions as respondents in the case.
Mr Adede added that on March 19, 2019, the DCI with the collusion of Barclays in full glare of media, hastily and unlawfully broke into said box and seized the contents there belonging to him.
“The DCI is under public duty to be fair and just in the execution of his duties,’’ argues Adede.
The court is still looking into the application and accusation.