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Stanley Mombo Amuti who was a former Water Ministry finance manager has been ordered to pay the government Sh41.2 million.
This is after he failed to explain how he accumulated a considerable amount of his wealth between the year 1992 and 2008.He served as the finance manger for the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation (NW&PC) from 2004 until 2008.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) had moveed to court to compel Mr. Amuti to pay the State bank deposits he had accumulated through 'fraudulent means' amounting to Sh140 million and a further Sh32 million being the value of unexplained assets held.
While delivering the ruling ,Justice Lydia Achode said the value of property that Amuti had was disproportionate to his known source of income at the time when he was in charge of the finance docket at ministry of water.
"In the present case, I have considered the property acquired at or around the time Amuti was reasonably suspected of corruption or economic crime; and whose value is disproportionate to his known source of income at or around that time, and for which I consider that there is no satisfactory explanation,” Justice Achode said.
She added, “I therefore declare that the forgoing sums of monies to be unexplained assets and order that the defendant (Amuti) do pay the Kenya Government Kshs41, 208, 000/=." .
EACC moved to court in 2015 after investigations regarding the bank accounts of Mr. Amuti revealed that he had accumulated Sh140 million between September 2007 and June 2008 in two accounts one in Barclays Bank and National West Minister Bank, PLC London -a foreign bank.