Government accountant ordered to forfeit Sh200 million assets for being proceeds of crime
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NYS saga suspect ordered to forfeit Sh100 million to State
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THE STANDARD By
Paul Ogemba |
February 26th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
A businesswoman who benefitted from money stolen from the National Youth Service has been ordered to forfeit close to Sh100 million to the State.
Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi yesterday ordered Charity Wangui Gethi (
pictured) and her associate Samuel Wachenje to forfeit the money being proceeds of crime after finding out that she illegally acquired the money as part of the Sh791 million lost in the first NYS scandal in 2015.
“There is evidence that the funds in her accounts are proceeds of crime having been part of the funds fraudulently transferred from NYS. The only course open to court is to find that Sh97,682,424 in her accounts are proceeds of crime and liable to forfeiture to the State,” ruled Ngugi.
Kenyans, while congratulating Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi expressed their fervent desire to see the veteran judge as their next Chief Justice and leader of the Supreme Court. She recently won the prestigious Global Jurist of the Year Award from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Center for International Human Rights (CIHR). According to Northwestern Now, the Global Jurist of the Year Award is designed to honour a sitting judge, whether in an international or national court, who has demonstrated in his or her career courage in the face of adversity to uphold and defend fundamental human rights or the principles of international criminal justice.