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Senior Kenya Pipeline Company managers have been trying to cover-up a scandal in which an insider used briefcase companies to siphon billions of shillings from the parastatals coffers.
The massive fraud, first unearthed 16 months ago, is estimated to have cost KPC Sh2 billion. It was orchestrated by three relatives using seven different companies, some of which were registered using forged documents.
How much the senior management knew about this fraud is still not clear, but detectives believe there is now “overwhelming evidence” to charge the three relatives and a lawyer.
Before detectives tightened the noose around the three, KPC had bought newspaper space to defend the tenders, while the suspects filed libel cases after the Nation exposed the scandal in March 2017.
The cast includes a Kenya Pipeline welder, identified as Mr Francis Amina Juma, his nephew, Mr John Huba Waka, and Mr Waka’s wife, Ms Beryl Aluoch Khasinah, an employee of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). They are now part of an ongoing investigation into funds allegedly channelled by KPC to their phantom companies as payments for supplies.
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