NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 3 – The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is probing a Sh1.7 million corruption case involving officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) attached to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
The commission launched investigations after it received a tip off of the said officials taking bribes from certain brokers/traders to influence an ongoing case.
The officials allegedly tried to cover up a criminal case involving concealment of goods for export.
“The Commission commenced investigation upon receiving a complaint that DCI Officers seconded to KRA, Mombasa were offered financial advantage of KSh. 1,700,000/= by certain traders/brokers in order to influence an ongoing criminal investigations they were conducting in relation to some export of concealed goods in containers. The trader’s intention was to pay less export duty by making wrong declarations of the actual goods in the containers,” EACC said.
“Investigations established that the suspects offered a bribe of KSh. 1,000,000/= to the said DCI officers, leading to the arrest of the suspects,” it added in a statement.
The Commission awaits the response from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
“On 23rd September, 2022, a report was compiled and forwarded to the DPP with recommendations that the suspects be charged individually with various counts each of giving a bribe contrary to section 5(1) as read with section 18 of the Bribery Act No 47 of 2016; the two suspects be charged jointly with one count of conspiracy to commit and economic crime contrary to section 47(A) (3) of Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, 2003.”
