HOW MATHIRA MP RIGATHI GACHAGUA USED YOUTHS TO LAUNDER TAXPAYERS MONEY IN FRAUDULENT TENDER DEALS (A Thread)
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations welcomes yesterday’s ruling by High Court Judge Esther Maina, directing Mathira Member of Parliament Rigathi Gachagua,
to forfeit Sh200 million to the state, which he acquired fraudulently from government agencies through corrupt deals. This is after the legislator failed to prove to the court how he obtained the money, after it was wired from different government agencies to
Rafiki Micro Finance, owned by the legislator. Comprehensive investigations conducted by sleuths based at the Serious Crimes unit, unearthed details of how the MP used different companies to fraudulently secure government tenders.
Using proxies who had registered over 20 companies, Rigathi obtained over Sh 1.7 Billion from close to 10 government ministries, state departments, parastatals and county governments paid through Rafiki micro-finance. The MP and two of his trusted female associates approached
youths and women to register companies and open accounts at Rafiki micro-finance, then used his influence and blackmail to secure tenders for the companies. However, one of Rigathi’s trusted confidants and Personal assistant Julianne Jahenda, was made a signatory in all the
accounts opened by the suppliers at the micro-finance.
In a well orchestrated and executed plan, the youths were then given loans by the micro-finance and assisted to supply the required goods, most of which were substandard and broke down immediately after being delivered,
leading to losses of hundreds of millions of tax payers money. Hospitals were the most targeted by the crooked thugs who took advantage of efforts by County Governments to equip their health facilities and offer specialized health services to the public.
In one such deal in 2014, a county based in central Kenya received medical equipment worth Sh27.4 million shillings for supply of dialysis machines and a water treatment plant. The tender for supply of the equipment was awarded to 13 companies all allied to Rigathi.
However, the payment was made in a single voucher through Rafiki Micro Finance, then transferred to Rigathi’s personal accounts.
This is despite the fact that one of the dialysis machines and the water treatment plant supplied were not functional, prompting the national
government through Managed Equipment Scheme (MES) to come through by supplying eight dialysis machines and a water treatment plant that are currently in use at the hospital. At the South Coast, a hospital received an incinerator worth Sh12.7 million shillings supplied by one
of Rigathi’s associates in 2014. The incinerator has never been put to use since it was a faulty junk, yet the county government had paid Sh10 million for it.
During the same year, a county in Western Kenya also traded with the crooked Member of Parliament through proxies,
for supply of medical equipment to a tune of Sh123.1 million.
Shockingly, after the tenders were paid to the proxies’ accounts at Rafiki Micro Finance, Jahenda would immediately transfer the money to other accounts belonging to Rigathi, who would then deposit the monies in
other different accounts to avoid detection by our hawk eyed sleuths. In some cases, the poor youths would be compelled to sign blank cheques that would later be cashed and the money deposited to Rigathi’s personal accounts.
The seasoned sleuths also established that there were funds going into Rigathi’s accounts from loans and inter-company transfers, indicating that he was the ultimate beneficiary of the funds received from the counties.
The poor suppliers were then left paying for the loans
that they acquired at the micro finance and supplied junks to county hospitals. It is through the painstaking investigations by sleuths from the Serious Crimes unit, that this high level fraud was detected, leading to the freezing of Sh201,911,371.28 belonging to
the MP by the Assets Recovery Agency. Additionally, the detectives whom the MP recently alleged couldn’t do simple arithmetics, discovered that Jahenda who operated an Mpesa shop in the city’s Eastlands suburbs prior to being recruited as Rigathi’s Personal Assistant and
another female associate, had received over Sh254 Million which they could not account for.
The Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti and the entire Directorate celebrates the detectives for a job well done, in a hostile environment.
The Directorate encourages the sleuths to continue smoking out criminals, out to milk the country dry and deny our future generations a country to inherit.#FichuakwaDCI 0800722203.
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MAN COLLAPSES AND DIES AT A LODGING IN MIGORI FOLLOWING A THRILLING NIGHT
Police in Nyatike, Migori county are questioning a 24-year-old woman following the death of her 52-year-old boyfriend who was found dead at a lodging in the wee hours of the morning.
In the incident that shocked residents of West Kanyarwanda, Naftali Nyandera’s lifeless body was discovered sprawled on a bed at Lavanda lodgings, after an action packed evening with the young woman.Police officers based at Macalder police station were called at the
scene and established that the 52-year-old man had walked into the room accompanied by the babe half his age, and collapsed hours later following an eventful evening.
DCI SLEUTHS LEADS THE COUNTRY IN QUEEN’S SHOOTING COMPETITION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
Kenya’s top shooters exhibited remarkable performance during the just concluded 153rd Her Majesty (HM) the Queen’s platinum jubilee Imperial meeting held at Bisley, United Kingdom.
The month-long competitions that commenced on June 23, to July, 23, attracting competitors from around the globe, saw the Kenyan team produce the highest number of shooters for the first time in 54 years. Led by DCI’s Mr Alfred Njoka who was the team manager, the National Police
Service team buoyed by their preceding outstanding performances, didn’t disappoint as they represented the country fully by displaying impressive marksmanship skills during the much sought-after competitions.
After all the dust settled, the Kenyan team proved to the world
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations takes with great exception, today’s statement dated July, 22, 2022, issued by the Chairman of the Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Wafula Chebukati, to the effect that three
IEBC officials have been detained by ‘OCS ATPU‘.
The Directorate hereby clarifies that no such persons have been detained; or any other person working for IEBC anywhere in the territory of the Republic of Kenya. Further, the DCI has no such office known as
‘OCS Anti Terrorism Police Unit’ in our structure.
The statement issued by the IEBC Chairman is not only inaccurate, but also misleading to the public and should be treated with the contempt it deserves.
KINOTI VISITS KIGALI GENOCIDE MEMORIAL BEOFRE LEADING COLLEAGUES IN PRAYER FOR THE COUNTRY AT THE KIBEHO CATHOLIC SHRINE
The Director General of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti, has wrapped up his 3-day security related visit to the republic of Rwanda,
with a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial and Our Lady of Kibeho Shrine in South Western Rwanda.
The Director General accompanied by some of his staff members laid a wreath of flowers at the Genocide memorial site, in memory of over 1Million victims of the genocide against
members of the Tutsi community and moderate Hutu, carried out 28 years ago. In one of the world’s worst modern-day tragedies, the massacre that occurred in just 100 days between April 7 and July 15 1994, spread over the country like bush fire as ordinary citizens were
CRIMINALS TURN TO WITCHCRAFT TO EVADE ARREST BY DCI SLEUTHS
Criminals have resorted to witchcraft and other unorthodox methods, in a bid to evade detection by our hawk-eyed detectives, as DCI intensifies its onslaught against criminals and criminal gangs in the country.
Yesterday, detectives based at the elite Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB) supported by their Special Services Unit (SSU) counterparts, pounced on a suspect who took off with Sh 4million, from her employer three weeks ago.
The suspect identified as Miriam Mwelu, who was accompanied by her partner Timothy Akoi, were found at a renowned witch doctor’s house in Gachie, Kiambu county, where Mwelu had gone to seek protection from our men.