Investigations
NBK to auction drug baron’s home over debt
The National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has put the palatial home of Mombasa based drug baron Ali Punjani for auction over more than Sh1 billion debt which includes interest and penalties.
The eight bed roomed double-storey mansion in Nyali with staff quarters, a swimming pool sits on 0.4 acres is registered to Shrike Investments Limited G/T Rising Star Commodities.
Punjani’s home came to the limelight in 2019 when it was raided by police who spent more than 20 hours in pursuit of Mr Punjani over links to trafficking of narcotics.
“The property is situated within Nyali Estate, Mombasa County. Access off Links Road is through Nyali Road to Moyne Drive, through to Kenyatta Avenue and Green-Wood Drive. The subject is situated along an unnamed Cul-de-sac Access Road and it’s a second-row beach plot approximately 300m off Green Wood Drive,” Garam auctioneers wrote.
Ali Punjani’s palatial home in Nyali that is up for auction [p/courtesy]
The move to auction the baron’s home has been stepped up by the KCB Group which bought the NBK bank in 2019.
KCB is in pursuit of loan delinquents to help clean up a number of bad debts that accumulated over the years.
The National Bank of Kenya aims to recover all the bad loans that which are threatening to leave it a crippled lender even after the government merged it with KCB in 2019.
[Image: courtesy]
Mr Punjani shady dealings with NBK raised eyebrows in 2016 during a court case in which the bank’s relationship manager Edwin Kipchumba revealed how the narcotics trafficker used backroom channels to receive millions from the crippled bank.
Kipchumba was fighting to be reinstated to his position after an audit by Deloitte & Touché unearthed the misrepresentation of the lender’s non-performing loans.
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