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Anglo Leasing secrets: UK ready to reveal all
Left: Gichugu MP and former Justice minister Martha Karua wanted AG Wako to explain the status of 12 Anglo Leasing contracts and how many cases had been filed against the government. Right: AG Amos Wako listed the terminated security contracts and said he had recovered billions of shillings. Photos/FILE
Posted Tuesday, May 19 2009 at 21:15
In Summary
- The SFO is blocked from handing over the report to Kenya’s Attorney General because British laws dictate that the document can only be handed over to an ongoing investigation.
- The lid on the Liverpool address for Anglo Leasing and Finance Company has been lifted, giving credible leads to the key people who hatched the plot
- Speaker Kenneth Marende has ordered a parliamentary committee to inquire into the mystery surrounding the Anglo Leasing scandal that has remained unresolved for six years.
“We were barred from receiving any reports on that matter. The Attorney General is most suited to comment about it because he has been trying to appeal against the ruling,” he said.
In Parliament on Tuesday, the AG listed the terminated Anglo Leasing contracts as the Forensic Sciences Laboratories project, the Immigration Security Documents and Control Systems Project, the Kenya E-Cops Security Law and Order Systems Project and the Export Lease purchase of Security Vehicles for police project.
Legal advisor
But the AG was taken to task by MPs who accused him of abdicating his role as the government’s chief legal adviser by sanctioning the contracts. Mr Wako told MPs that Sh1 billion had been recovered from four Anglo Leasing type of contracts, which were terminated.
He listed Mr Anura Perreira and a Mr Deepak Kamani as the chief perpetrators of the scandal.
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