Thursday, May 18, 2023 –Senior Court official and her family have been struck by court orders freezing their bank accounts which are claimed to be having suspicious colossal amounts of money received from a foreign firm.
On Thursday May 18, High Court sitting in Nairobi ordered that personal bank accounts registered in the names of the Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, Anne Atieno Amadi, as well as her son Brian Ochieng Amadi and two others be frozen with immediate effect.
This is after a Dubai-based gold-dealing company went to court accusing the registrar of having received the cash from it with pretense of supplying them with pure gold.
Bruton Gold Trading LLC claims that the suspects, acting on behalf of the law firm Amadi and Associates Advocates, illegally obtained over sh 89 million for gold that they never supplied.
The said foreign firm wanted to purchase the gold from Kenya and was introduced by Daniel Ndegwa Kangara to the Amadis.
Kangara was to then export the gold to Dubai after the parties had agreed, but this turned into a cat and mouse game to date.
First, sh 71 million was sent to Ms. Amadi’s law firm, but that no gold was ever exported from Kenya to Dubai.
Citizen Digital explained that investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations DCI established that Amadi is the registered proprietor of Amadi and Associates Advocates.
The probe further disclosed that the account where the money was deposited was also opened by Ms. Amadi after joining the Judiciary.
Furthermore, they claim that the funds received by the firm were withdrawn in cash by Ms. Amadi’s son and two others without adequate documentation as required by the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act.
In the court papers, the Dubai firm alleges that Ms. Amadi later called them seeking to clear the sum within six months, to which they declined as there was no security performance on the part of defendants.
