Kes62 million assets belonging to Ministry of Transport senior deputy director David Kinyae Isika are set to be frozen in a corruption investigation.
This is after the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC) obtained orders from the court .
Kinyae is a director supply chain management and a number of assets and companies he owns are affected by the order.
The assets include six parcels of land valued at Kes 26.3 million and six motor vehicles valued at Kes 29.6 million.
Among other assets is Kes 4.9 million in a bank account belonging to a company associated with the official and Kes 1.5 million in cash.
The money was seized by the EACC who executed a search warrant at his residence. It was in denominations of Kes 1,000.The orders come in an ongoing recovery suit of suspected unexplained wealth, belonging
to the official, amounting to Kes 186 million.
Additionally, the commission wants the High Court to order the official to pay the difference of Kes 123.8 million to the government.
During the period of interest, January 2014 and June 2021, the Kinyae earned a total net salary of Kes 5.9 million but acquired wealth amounting to Kes 186 million which he could not explain.
EACC says it reasonably suspected him of corruption and economic crimes, and undertook investigations.
The orders, issued by anti corruption judge Justice Esther Maina on December 20, 2022, will be in force until the case is fully heard and determined.
Earlier in the year, the court had issued a temporary injunction preserving the assets for six months to allow completion of investigations by EACC.
The investigations have since been completed and a suit filed seeking recovery of the entire Kes 186 million from Kinyae, his son Bruce and companies owned by the family.
The commission commenced investigations in this matter following receipt of credible information that Kinyae Isika, a Senior Deputy Director, Supply Chain Management in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works had engaged in corrupt conduct leading to the acquisition of assets beyond his known legitimate sources of income.
The investigations sought to establish whether there were reasonable grounds to suspect that the said official was engaged in corruption and economic crimes as alleged and further, whether he had acquired and/or accumulated assets that were disproportionate to his known legitimate source(s) of income irrespective of whether the suspect assets were held by himself or other parties.
Further, EACC says investigations established that between year January 2014 and June 2021 the said official would, directly and indirectly, acquire private interest through his close associates by trading and irregularly participating in irregular tender processes within the Ministry, in direct conflict of interest to his position as a senior supply chain management officer.
And in the process, together with his associates, accumulated unexplained assets valued at Kes 186 million that could not possibly have been acquired using his known legitimate sources of income.
Investigations further established a scheme to conceal the unexplained assets through family members, business fronts and corporate entities.
