The High Court in Nairobi has ordered that personal bank accounts in the names of the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, Anne Atieno Amadi, her son Brian Ochieng Amadi, and two others be frozen and that no withdrawals be allowed without consent.
This comes after Ms Amadi, her son Brian, and others were sued by a Dubai-based gold firm.
According to the petition, Bruton Gold Trading LLC claims that the defendants illegally collected over Ksh.89 million for gold that they never supplied while operating on behalf of the law firm Amadi and Associates Advocates.
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According to the Dubai company, it was interested in purchasing gold from Kenya and was introduced by one of the suspects, Daniel Ndegwa Kangara.
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They said that after the parties reached an agreement, Kangara would deliver gold, which would be exported to Dubai for sale.
They claim that while Ksh.Seventy-one million was given to Ms Amadi's law firm. No gold was ever moved from Kenya to Dubai.
They say in their lawsuit against the Judiciary Registrar that DCI investigations revealed she is the registered proprietor of Amadi and Associates Advocates.
They further claim that the investigation revealed that Ms Amadi opened the account where the money was put after entering the Judiciary.
They further say that the funds obtained by the firm were withdrawn in cash by Ms Amadi's son and two others without the appropriate documentation under the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act.
According to the court documents, the Dubai firm claimed that Ms Amadi later called them, requesting that the sum be cleared within six months, which they denied due to the defendants' lack of security performance.
