Fresh details have emerged on the prison cleaner accused of illegally amassing wealth valued at Ksh257 million.
According to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), it is still a mystery as to how the individual got the millions while working with the country's Correctional Services.
EACC managed to retrieve his details and one available photo through fingerprint analysis but the person himself remains a mystery.
However, according to the prisons department, the cleaner is well known and they are working with detectives to unmask him.
Other than the identity of the cleaner, the new details have also revealed how he moved the money without raising eyebrows.
According to details submitted before Justice Esther Maina of the Nairobi anti-corruption court, the cleaner reportedly moved chunks of millions through seven companies.
The court documents explain that in his first transaction, the cleaner paid Ksh51 million to a hygiene company, Ksh22 million to an agency, Ksh10 million to a logistic company, Ksh13.6 to a service company, Ksh13 million to another logistics company and another KshKsh73 million, Ksh62 million to other companies.
The anti-graft agency detailed that the cleaner withdrew Ksh133 million in cash for unspecified purposes.
He then used the balance to buy property, including land in Kericho, which he registered in his father’s name.
The documents further report that the cleaner even gifted his colleague with a posh house.
"He used false documents to confer a benefit to himself and his colleague. He abused his office by conferring a benefit to himself,” EACC argued.
"He disguised himself with the support of colleagues as a ghost supplier by using false documents to plan, execute and confer to himself a benefit in contravention of the constitution, the Public Officers Ethics Act, and the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act (yet he is) a public officer," the agency argued.
He was an employee of the prisons from 2009. In 2017, he reportedly earned a promotion, getting a job in the procurement department.
But from the deals he inked, investigations further established that receipts and records of delivery were missing indicating that he had supplied nothing but air.
"The investigations established that the above companies did not supply food rations to the respective prisons and that the payment vouchers did not originate from the said prisons.
"There are no attached local purchase orders or inspection and acceptance committee certificates in the payment vouchers," EACC documents stated.
Part of the cleaner's properties set for seizure include three houses worth Ksh57 million and seven vehicles valued at Ksh32 million.
