Assets Recovery Agency Seeks to Have Ngirita Family's Property Surrendered to Gov't
The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) has filed a case in court seeking to have assets belonging to members of the Ngirita family forfeited to the government.
In a case filed on Monday, ARA wants cars and properties held by the Ngiritas declared as proceeds of crime.
The properties the agency wants to be forfeited are held by Phyllis Ngirita, Lucy Ngirita and Jeremiah Ngirita, the key suspects in the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal.
ARA is also seeking to have assets belonging to two of their companies; Platinum Credit Limited and Opportunity International-Wedco Limited forfeited.
“It is in the interest of justice that court issues an order that the said assets belonging to the three and which are reasonably believed to be proceeds of crime be forfeited to government and transferred to ARA,” reads court documents.
The agency says it has established that the three received huge amounts of money from the NYS through their firms and personal accounts.
“Upon investigating the bank statements and documents concerning the accounts, the agency established that the three and their business entities and associates received funds fraudulently from NYS split into several transactions,” ARA further says.
ARA says Phyllis received Sh57 million in her personal account held at KCB bank while Ngiwaco Enterprises, which is owned by Lucy, received Sh109 million through their account in the same bank.
“Investigations revealed that Phyllis was paid by NYS directly to her personal account contrary to procedure. This is a clear case of fraud as there is no evidence of goods or services procured by NYS directly from Phyllis,” the agency notes.
Judge John Onyiego has directed the application be served to the Ngiritas within 14 days.
The case will be mentioned on April 15th, 2019.
ARA has also sought similar orders against NYS suspects James Thuita Nderitu, Betty Omondi as well as Flagstone Merchants Limited, Firstling Supplies, Excella Supplies Limited, Flagstone Co. Ltd, and Interscope Tech. Services.