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The High Court has frozen over Sh200 million deposited in bank accounts belonging to Mathira MP Rigathi Gachagua.
The accounts were frozen for 90 days pending a petition by the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) seeking to have the funds forfeited to the government, Sunday Nation reports.
The money deposited in accounts at Rafiki Micro Finance were received from various government agencies and are suspected to be proceeds of crime, according to documents filed in court.
Preliminary investigations revealed MP Gachagua’s involvement in a suspected complex scheme of money laundering.
The funds were channeled to the accounts from the Ministry of Lands (Kenya Informal Settlements Programme), State Department for Special Planning, Ministry of Health, Bungoma County government, Mathira Constituency Development Fund, Nyeri County government and the National Irrigation Board.
The freezing orders issued by Justice John Onyiego block the MP from accessing three accounts that hold Sh165 million, Sh35 million, and Sh773,228.
The three accounts are registered in the name of Gachagua while the fourth holds Sh1,138,142 and is registered in the name of Jenne Enterprises.
Court filings show within a period of seven years, Gachagua received a total of Sh5.8 billion from companies providing services to ministries, state agencies, and county governments.
ARA launched investigations against Gachagua and Jenne in March after it received information on suspected money-laundering schemes.
“That within the said period, there were massive suspicious cash withdrawals, transfers, inter and intra-bank transfers from other accounts to the accounts under investigations and other bank accounts owned by Mr. Gachagua in suspicious complex money-laundering schemes,” the agency said.
“There are reasonable grounds to believe that the suspect’s bank accounts were used as a conduit for money laundering in efforts to conceal, disguise the nature, source, disposition, and movement of illicit funds and should be preserved.”
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So much for BLACK LIVES MATTER... WHERE ARE THE CELEBS protecting real African American.. Black on black crimes. Are always more than. Whites on black crime. . Prime example of blacks treat and rape and steal and all that to their own .. but no. Let's blame all the other races some how... Dumb founded. Wake up people.
Take every penny and return the stolen money to Kenyans. No wonder this big mouth is fast running to DP Ruto’s court where the stolen loot is hidden! Better yet put this rouge thief in jail while the matter is sorted out! Shame on you Rigathi! Steal money from all the sources where the poor people’s money is kept. Do you have any shame??? Go to hell you idiot!!! The money belongs to the people and it is not your mother’s!!!
Surely these thieves of our coffers must be locked up immediately. They have found illegal business avenues to enrich themselves by stealing massive amounts of money from Kenyans. Gachagua has stolen from Nyeri to Kakamega and back! What a thief!?
Gachagua ought to be remanded while the investigations are going on! I blame the ordinary folks who voted for crooks like Gachagua.
MO Gachagua should be recalled by the people! You can steal and think you will get by without facing the consequences. Let the people of Nyeri kick him out of parliament!! That is the only way he will learn to behave! I hate thieves!!
Pesa ya Wanjiku
Bwana DCI, Please investigate his late brother wealth too and have no mercies in any form or shape: While at it, there is now enough evidence and the time is ripe to arrest the entire Urithi Management Team directed by the most notorious fraudster in the entire universe, Samuel Maina,his mentor Moses Kiarie and Urithi legal counsel, Joyce N. Kuria. (This lady should be jailed at Langata Women Prison for 25 years performing duties chia kuhorania uchuru na kuonoria ndoo chia ???. Thank you in advance, Bwana DCI.
You seem to know every thief involved here to include the lawyer! The DCI should recruit you to help in prosecuting these thieves and make sure they all go to jail to do hard labor! A good citizen does what is right to assist his country.
Munyamarie, very true. God got so mad with his older brother he had to die ..and fast. Now this thief learned from the best like you have pointed out. His boss though is one WSR.
Kikuyus are thieves.
Are you back to cause trouble again @ Guesty?
Ngiti ino.
This devil is a big liar! He is making a very bad name for the kalenjin community. We should call him out and ask for his prosecution. Enough is enough!
Mr dci go for mwizi killer raila top account so u can recover our molasses company monies too which he stole from us.2b kazi kwa vinjana monies which was to help the youth n 20 billions he was bribed to stop his demonstrations 2017.Fyeka wote but if u continue choosing one side ur not bin fair n remember we not in support of bbi even one inch as Gema community.Wr not we will never vote for killer/economic saboteur,power hungry maniac raila
Kwani is it only Tangatanga supporters that are being targeted? Looters who support Uhunye and Raila can continue looting and sleep peacefully. As usual, this is selective war of graft to intimidate the Hustlers.
The goal is to politically finish the big thief, DP Ruto, among them! Those other thieves just put the loot in the safety box for future use!
Big thieves targeting the small thieves.
All this thieves were baptized by their high priest arap samoei ruto lootall.Thats why they had big mouths discrediting uhuru for they knew if it goes uhuru way they will be in trouble.The likes of kuria with cdf,kimani ngunjiri with ngong forest etc your gooses have been cooked...Waluke way is the best to sanitize kenya..
Is Rigathi a kin of Oscar Sudi! Just look at the ugly mouth, and both of them are thieves.
As much as this is politically motivated by his support of the looter all unexplained wealth should be forfeited to the state. These are the people sucking the ordinary kenyans to death like leeches.