For years, Korir, a key official at the Woman and Youth Against Aids and Poverty (WAYAAP), leveraged the NGO’s seemingly legitimate facade to lure businesses into lucrative tender deals.
The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Mohamed Amin, has accused former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua of engaging in “media theatrics” over claims of assassination attempts, urging him to lodge a formal complaint at a police station. Amin’s remarks, made on Saturday, follow Gachagua’s public allegations on April 15 that his life was in danger after […]
Governor Stephen Sang of Nandi County faces serious allegations involving illegal employment of unqualified individuals, including his relatives and close allies. Investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have exposed a pattern of nepotism and corruption in county hiring practices. For two weeks, the Nandi County headquarters […]
Former vice president and Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka on Wednesday appeared before the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in Nairobi where he was grilled over allegations of grabbing 200-acre piece of land in Yatta. Kalonzo who accompanied by his lawyer James Orengo said he was summoned by the DCI to shed light on how […]
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) now claims that their detectives seized $57,000 (Sh6.1 million) at the chambers of Justice Aggrey and Justice Said Chitembwe during a last week raid at the Milimani Law Courts. Court documents show that DCI, through Chief Inspector Felix Banzi recovered $50,000 from an unidentified woman in Justice Muchelule’s chambers and […]
Hafsa Mohamed Lukman the Kamukunji based businesswoman who disappeared on June 15, has finally been rescued by detectives, from her captors. The 23-year-old woman was found at a dingy room in Matopeni, within Kayole, where she had been forced to fit in a water tank. Hafsa who was last seen at her clothing shop was […]
The family of Simon Waweru Njoroge, the owner of Windsor Motors Limited is pleading with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to engage with Ethiopian authorities for the release of their son who is held hostage by an Ethiopian businessman he conned over a Sh25 million. Njoroge defrauded Neto Godana the said amount after they agreed […]
An audit report has soaked Geothermal Development Company (GDC) managing director and embattled CEO Johnson ole Nchoe in an insider fraud after it emerged that he irregularly approved a Sh20 million mortgage scheme for an employee who did not qualify. According to documents in DCI’s possession, Nchoe allowed Simon Cheruiyot, GDC’s Human Resources and Administration […]
Sarah Wairimu Cohen, the widow of slain Dutch tycoon late Tob Cohen has sued George Kinoti-led DCI and Noordin Haji’s DPP and demanding Sh500 Million in what she terms as illigal detention of their Kitusuru home. In the lawsuit, Sarah say her Kitusuru property is estimated to be worth Sh400 million of value and is […]
DCI probe into the Sh38 billion Itare dam scandal has taken a new twist after it emerged that Rift Valley Water Works Development Agency board members that tabbed the flawed project tender to bankrupt CMC di Ravenna lacked a quorum and could not deliberate nor evaluate it. This comes a day after DCI summoned 11 […]
In what looks like, my opinion— a botched assassination attempt, the Kenyan-based Ex-German soldier reported missing by his Kenyan wife was deported Immigration departments without the wife’s knowledge. The main suspect in a case that the DCI had launched investigations Neema Nyawira, the wife to then missing person-Paul Topf, said in a police statement that […]
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has responded to a netizen who seeked their response on why the past criminal record of embattled Nairobi governor Mike Sonko was expunged. According to a pic of the DCI’s Good Conduct certificate issued to Mike Sonko in 2017, the City boss has a clean criminal record despite him being […]
Kinoti led DCI detectives yesterday questioned the corrupt senior Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) officials. Manduku lead management differed with junior KPA board members on the approval of multimillion tenders that have seen coffers lose billions setting a stage where arrests of KPA officials are eminent. Last week, DCI handed over the files implicating KPA boss […]
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