An Italian national could be arrested and extradited to Kenya to face corruption charges in a case that could terminate CS Henry Rotich's tenure at Treasury.
DPP Noordin Haji will also seek the extradition of Paolo Porcelli, the Italian director of CMC di Ravenna, to face charges, the director of public prosecutions told Reuters on Tuesday.
“We have the Italian individual, he has not managed to present himself so we will be seeking for his extradition to come and face the charges here in Kenya. We will also issue an international arrest warrant,” Noordin Haji said.
The company is at the center of Sh21 billion scandal in which detectives are accusing it along with several government officials of conspiracy to defraud the public among other charges.
In a statement on Monday, the company said it had not been informed of “any official communication from the Kenyan authorities... CMC is certain of the correctness of the work of the company and its representatives, both in Italy and abroad”.
The government had borrowed a loan of Sh63 billion to finance the project and the DPP says that already, Sh19 billion had been paid for work not done.
In a press conference on Monday, DPP Haji said: “if the projects were carried out in adherence to the law and existing policies for safeguarding the public interest, then it should not have cost Sh63 billion. We have evidence to prove Sh19,714,366,991 was lost through a well-choreographed scheme to defraud public funds.”
Mr Paolo Porcelli is a key suspect in the case given that his company had been applied for bankruptcy back at his native Italy yet he applied for a contract in Kenya.