- The court also restrained any transfer, wasting, withdrawal or any use of the funds in the bank accounts.
- EACC has also sought the forfeiture of the Sh643.2 million, from the aforesaid unexplained wealth amassed in the period between January 1, 2016, and October 31, 2022.
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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has obtained orders freezing Sh643.2 million of unexplained wealth linked to a junior staffer at the City Hall.
The assets include land, vehicles, apartments and, millions of cash in various bank accounts, M pesa and Sh898,000 cash recovered from him.
They amount to Sh643,213,688.12.
"That in the interim, an order of injunction be and is hereby issued restraining the respondents, their agents, servants or any other person from alienating, selling, charging, developing, disposing of, wasting or in any other way dealing with the motor vehicles and land," court documents dated September 13, 2023, read.
The court also restrained any transfer, wasting, withdrawal or any use of the funds in the bank accounts.
EACC has also sought the forfeiture of the Sh643.2 million, from the aforesaid unexplained wealth amassed in the period between January 1, 2016, and October 31, 2022.
EACC filed a petition seeking the orders to have the amount forfeited to the government after carrying out an investigation that established that the staffer was earning a net salary of Sh55,866.75 monthly.
This elicited questions on the amassing of assets whose value was above his known legitimate source of income.
"It is reasonably suspected that the above-stated properties were acquired through corruption and the same should be forfeited to the government of Kenya and the difference in value should be paid to the government of Kenya as prayed," the petition by EACC reads.
The Commission began its investigations after receiving information that the staffer was involved in corrupt conduct in the aforementioned period between 2016 and 2022.
During the probe, EACC also established that the officer was associated with various private companies, in which he was registered as a Director.
The monies suspected to have been acquired through the reported corrupt conduct, the Commission found, were received and channelled through bank accounts in the officer's name and the name of companies associated with him and, his family members including spouse and children.
This was established following an analysis of bank statements.
"Considering the 1st respondent's net salary of Sh55,866.75 per month, the frequent inter-account transfers and intermingling of funds, the large and frequent deposits into his bank account and those of the companies associated with him, raises questionable suspicion that the monies could have been obtained through corrupt conduct," EACC said in the court documents.