In 1995, Raila Odinga filed another private suit against the then Finance Minister George Saitoti and others.
In the suit, it was alleged that Saitoti had facilitated fraud when he authorised the payment of up to Ksh18 billion in export compensation for goods never exported and at 15% higher than the legal rate.
According to a report by Wikileaks that was published on September 1, 2009, this was one of the cases that had forced the US Department of Immigration to start procedures to block the then-Attorney General Amos Wako from entering the US.
Wikileaks claimed that the AG had intentionally bangled the case from court in order to circumvent justice.
"The AG did the same in a case pursued by then MP Raila Odinga in 1995 where and once again the Attorney General moved swiftly to take over and terminate this prosecution," Wikileaks reported.
On Monday, November 18, 2019, ten years after the Wikileaks report, the US State Departement proceeded to bar the now-former AG and current senator for Busia and members of his family from entering the US
Wikileaks documents showed that Wako was accused of having engaged in and benefited from public corruption in his capacity as Attorney General for 18 years by interference with judicial and other public processes.
The US argued that corruption had a serious adverse impact on US national interest in the stability of democratic institutions in Kenya, US foreign assistance goals and the international economic activities of US businesses.
"During this period, despite a string of major corruption scandals, he has not only failed to prosecute successfully a single senior governmental figure but he also has actively thwarted their prosecution," the leaked documents further read.
The documents further claimed that Wako's improprieties were recorded in five reports, Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Goldenberg Affair (October 2005), Kenya National Assembly's Public Accounts Committee's report on the Anglo-Leasing scandal (March 2006) and Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission's (KACC) status report to President Kibaki on a number of the Anglo-Leasing contracts (June 2006).
Also in the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings or summary executions Mission to Kenya (February 2009) and finally in the Report of the Commission to Investigate Post-Election Violence (Waki Report ) October 2008).
