The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has called for the Police file of Sanlam Insurance Chief Finance Officer (CFO), Anthony Gitonga Kirimi for further management, this website has confirmed.
“The office of the DPP has called for the case file to address it,” the DPP’s spokesperson Jackline Okwi told this website today morning.
This development comes high on heels of a complaint lodged by an individual Shifa Umukundwa, after it emerged that Mr Gitonga had successfully used his connections in security to ‘kill and bury’ the police case number GEF45/2021, registered under him at Kira Division Police at the beginning of last month.
Umukundwa’s letter to the DPP was received on August 3.
“Yes, the office received the complaint, and has called for the case file to address it,” the DPP’s spokesperson added.
She said that after probing the case, the DPP will then give direction on whether Gitonga, a Kenyan national has a case to answer or not.
DETAILS
In her letter, Umukundwa tells the DPP that the complaint originates from a case file where Gitonga Anthony Kirimi of Sanlam Insurance Company diverted close to 3 billion shillings” from Sanlam Insurance Company.
“He used other companies’ Accounts as conduits to his personal accounts. The matter was received at Kira Police Division through Intelligence and when the said Gitonga Anthony Kirimi was brought to Police and interviewed and he admitted to having stolen the money and involved in money laundering with other accomplices,” the complaint to the DPP reads in part.
Umukundwa claims that, however, when Mr Gitonga later went to CID Headquarters he alleged that Police Officers at Kira Police were asking for money from him.
“The matter was investigated and no evidence was pinning officers at Kira.”
A group of five cops including the lead investigator Mulema Maliserino were last month arrested and detained at the Railway Police station on charges of extortion.
It is reported that, Gitonga presented phone numbers (07025555201, 0713881968) to the investigating officers at Headquarters, Kibuli claiming that cops used the numbers to call him asking for money.
The DPP has since heard that these phone numbers are not known to the Kira cops.
“These allegations are intended to divert investigations and malice the Police Officers of Kira Division Police,” the letter further reads in detail.
CONFESSION
In a separate communication from lawyer Ddamba and Co Advocates to the IGP Martin Okoth Ochola, he alleges that Mr Gitonga confessed having diverted money from Sanlam Insurance Accounts to his personal bank accounts.
The lawyer in a letter said that Emmanuel Ssemanda, a CMI operative attached the RDC tipped the Kira CID office about the unusual transactions being done by the Gitonga.
“And being an intelligence related matter an officer from crime intelligence was sent to profile the said Gitonga later GEF45/2021 money laundering was opened for profiling this matter and the detective booked out to do the profiling however,” the lawyers said in a letter to the IGP.
These lawyer represented the arrested detectives who were investigating Mr Gitonga.
“He met stiff resistance from the complainant and his wife who even cracked the police vehicle windscreen As a result the officers arrested the complainant to facilitate the profiling process and indeed it was found out that he is a Kenyan working with Sanlam insurance company and had carried out illegal transactions using account numbers 4404161601 and 44041611600 and he confessed having stolen money from the facility using the above account numbers,” the letter reads.
Reports also indicate that Financial Intelligence Authority (FIA) had already put a redline on these accounts.
