Gov’t Seizes 5 Vehicles Belonging to Human Trafficking Suspect Peter Kamau

Gov’t Seizes 5 Vehicles Belonging to Human Trafficking Suspect Peter Kamau

The government has seized assets worth millions of shillings from human trafficking suspect Peter Mugi Kamau. 

This comes after the court allowed the Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) to take hold of five vehicles reportedly acquired using funds derived from illegal activities of human trafficking.

“Investigations established that the respondent devised a complex criminal network of deceiving, enticing, trafficking, transporting and harboring vulnerable persons through the international organized criminal network for purposes of exploiting and obtaining gain or profits from the victims of human trafficking,” ARA said in an application.

Kamau was arrested in October 2020 for harboring 22 Ethiopians and was charged before a Kiambu court. ARA then commenced investigations to recover funds and assets obtained from the illegal trade of trafficking in persons.

“The agency received information that the respondent acquired funds and assets/properties using the proceeds obtained from the illegal trafficking in persons suspected to be proceeds of crime contrary,” ARA submitted.

High Court Justice James Wakiaga issued orders freezing Sh400,000 held in three bank accounts belonging to Kamau. The suspect was further directed to surrender the original logbooks of the vehicles—four Toyotas and a Nissan Caravan.

The court also ordered the Director-General of the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to register caveats on the five vehicles.

“Investigations further established that the bank accounts were used as conduits of laundering proceeds of crime from the illegal trafficking in persons by the respondent,” court documents read.

When police raided Kamau’s house in Umoja estate Mwihoko in Githurai Kimbo, they found 22 Ethiopians who were to be ferried to various destinations. Police said the foreigners were victims of human trafficking and were being held illegally by Kamau.
 

Comments

Imara Daima (not verified)     Tue, 06/29/2021 @ 10:05am

Ningependa kuona yaliyompata Ndugu Zuma (aliyekuwa rais wa nchi ya Afrika ya Kusini) kwenye makakama ya Afrika ya Kusini yampate ndugu Kamau.

Namwomba Hakimu Mkuu mpya wa Kenya Dada Koome, afanye upya mahakama kuu ya kenya kwa kuwafunga jela wahalifu wote bila mapendeleo yoyote na kuyachukua mali yao yote waliyopata kwa njia za ajabuajabu!

Wario (not verified)     Tue, 06/29/2021 @ 10:46pm

Greed, greed, and more greed! How you sell another human being and then walk the face of the earth? Give this fool a life sensetence!

Kora kanini (not verified)     Wed, 06/30/2021 @ 09:09am

What Peter Mugi Kamau was doing is a case of helping illegal immigrants to Kenya, then these folks would find their way out of Kenya, just like what happens at the USA Mexico border.

Guest777 (not verified)     Thu, 07/01/2021 @ 11:27am

Ethiopians heading mostly to south africa. But legal slave traders are sending Kenyans to demons possessed Allah nations without penalty or any intervention. No politician, lawyer, law maker, executive, church elder, activist sees anything wrong with it. No attempt to take any action.

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