The Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of Sanlam Uganda, Anthony Gitonga Kirimi is being probed for allegedly offering an inducement to a cop to ‘kill’ a police file GEF:657/2021.
According to fresh details obtained by this website after we broke a story last week how Gitonga was being investigated for mismanaging over $1 million, he was arrested early July and taken into police custody at Kira Division where he spent a number of days.
He would later be released on bond without a charge.
However, the police file containing his statement and case number had since vanished from the records.
Subsequently, a cop ASP Mulema Maliserino who heads the criminal investigations at Kira Division was arrested and detained at Railway Police for reportedly shielding Mr Gitonga.
An online news outlet on Tuesday claimed that Gitonga coughed shs 200 million before Mulema freed him.
Mulema took action after getting information from whistleblower that Gitonga had withdrawn billions of shillings from Sanlam’s account.
He reportedly stashed the funds on 0100241611600, his account number is Standard Chartered Bank.
“We detected a series of transactions involving big sums of money flowing in the same direction on irregular intervals from Sanlam Insurance company to Afgri KAI Limited, Bluefin and then to individual accounts in Standard Chartered Bank Uganda,” the whistleblower said.
Insiders at Kira Division police say Gitonga later pleaded to Mulema not to take him to courts of for Prosecution well knowing that the case was very serious if it went to court.
Reports suggest that Mulema and other CID officials, for sometime frustrated whoever was following up Gitonga’s case.
“We were threatened and told to back off the case file. The statement and the file disappeared from Police,” a whistleblower said.
