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Two Directors of Rosalia Blooms Limited have suffered a blow after the high court declined to suspend their prosecution at the lower court.

While delivering the Judgement, Justice Lilian Mutende, ruled that there was no proof that the prosecution was abusing the court process.

Justice Mutende faulted the two directors saying they challenged their prosecution too late.

The two Mr. Shailesh Kumar Rai and his wife Ranjeeta Pandey Rai are the directors of a flower firm and are accused of stealing Sh107 million from the company.

Mr. Shailesh Kumar Rai and his wife Ranjeeta Pandey Rai had challenged their prosecution arguing that the charges were illegal and that the trial court failed to distinguish the company as a separate entity from its directors as they cannot be held liable for the acts of the company.

The couple were charged in August last year, together with two employees Isaac Ikua Kihara and Chris Oyunge, and denied a total of nine counts including conspiracy to defraud and forgery.

According to the charge sheet, Kumar between September 2021 and August 2022 in Nairobi County being the director of Heritage Flowers Company stole Euros 368,416.71 and 348,166.94 USD which came to his possession by virtue of his employment.

Kumar was further charged alongside Ranjeeta Pandey Rai, Isaac Jkua Kihara, Chris Oyunge Ontita for conspiring to defraud Heritage Flowers Limited company Ksh 117,718,596.

Kumar, Ranjeeta and Rosalia Blooms Limited was separately charged with money laundering where they were accused of engaging in a transaction to conceal an ammount of Ksh 107 million while having reason that the money was proceeds of crime.

Justice and Equity Council United Kingdom has announced a call for mass protests in Kenya, starting on August 8, 2024.
Through the group chairman Sebastian Onyango,they say they have been motivated by incompetence and corruption within the Kenyan government.
Speaking to the press, Onyango has criticized the Kenyan national assembly for passing a series of controversial laws, including the Court of Appeal-repealed Finance Act 2023, the Finance Act of 2024, the CDF Act, and the proposed Livestock Act. According to the Council, these laws are unconstitutional and highlight the national assembly’s failure to resist executive pressure and effectively hold the government accountable.
The Council has raised serious concerns about the actions of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), accusing the office of terminating corruption cases without proper consultation with investigative agencies, which they consider an abuse of power. They are calling for a judicial review of the DPP’s conduct and a comprehensive review of all corruption cases dismissed since 2022.
Additionally, the Council urges the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the financial dealings of cabinet secretaries to ensure transparency and to ascertain whether their wealth is derived from legitimate sources.
The Council is also critical of the recent appointments of certain cabinet secretaries, some of whom are alleged to have been involved in corruption or are under investigation by the EACC. They argue that the national assembly’s approval of these appointments is a misuse of public resources and contrary to the public interest.
In a direct challenge to President Ruto, the Council calls for his resignation and the establishment of a caretaker government to oversee new elections by August 2025. They accuse the president and his advisors of failing to uphold the 2010 Constitution and repeatedly neglecting their duty to protect and defend it.

They have critised the reappointment of Prof. Kindiki as the internal security cabinet secretary has also been condemned.
The Council cites numerous cases of police brutality, forced disappearances, and a lack of accountability during his previous tenure. They stress that state security should prioritize the safety of the Kenyan people, not just government buildings and politicians.
Reflecting on the events of June 25, 2024, the Council notes the government’s ongoing disregard for public demands for ethical and competent leadership. They are calling for peaceful assembly and picketing from August 8, 2024, until the current administration steps down and new elections are organized. The Council emphasizes the importance of non-violence and urges security forces to refrain from using force against protestors.
They say a call for protests is set to be a significant moment in Kenya’s political landscape. With growing public dissatisfaction over corruption and governance issues, the upcoming demonstrations are expected to draw widespread participation from citizens demanding meaningful change and accountability from their leaders.

Former isiolo member of Parliament Abdi koropu tepo has been charged with being in possession of over 34,000 USD forged bank notes.

Appearing before Milimani law Courts senior principal magistrate Bernard ochoi, koropu denied all the five counts.

According to the charge sheet, the offense was committed on July 25,2024, koropu was found in possession of 34,200 forged USD currency notes for one hundred denominations, knowing them to forged.

However, the prosecution didn’t not oppose koropu to be released on bond. He was, therefore, released on ksh 100,000 cash bail. The case will be mentioned on 12th of August for pre trial.

A Chinese investor who operates a company that deals with Chinese raw materials is now a free man after the court found him as a genuine investor and set him free from the criminal charges he was facing.

This is after her lawyer, Marlene Abong’o of Marlene Abong’o & Co. Advocates placed a spirited defence in court to prove that he never committed the offence as charged.

Abong’o also tabled before the courts origainal permits and other documents that proved that the said Chinese was a real investor and an employer in Kenya.

Wang Zhangyi was alledgly found with the said product t placed in 15 Jerricans of 20 litres capacity contrary to the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act.

Wang Zhangyi had been charged alongside Emmanuel Kipkogei Limo, David Ipomai Orodi and Joseph Mutuku Masaka who also denied the charges. They were however found guilty with the offence.

The chinese National had been charged before Kibera chief magistrate Ann Mwangi where they jointly denied the charges and were released on bind

According to the charge sheet, the accused persons had alledgly committed the offence on February 24, 2023, at around 1000hrs at Nkutuk Elmunget area in OL Donyiro within Samburu County

Lawyer Abong’o had told the court that the Chinese National had been in Kenya for over 20 years and had employed at least 120 Kenyans.

She  insisted before senior Principal Magistrate Samson Temu that the accused person was an investor in the country who had complied with law and requested for his acquittal.

The magistrate while reading his judgement said that it was wrong for the police to frustrate investors in the country and acquitted him.

She also adviced on the importance of doing serious investigations before presenting suspects to court.

The Standard Chartered Bank, a global bank headquartered in the UK, is accused in US court papers of processing billions of dollars in transactions for financiers of terrorist organizations through its subsidiary in Kenya, despite avoiding prosecution for money laundering.

Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice after Lord Cameron’s government intervened on its behalf in 2012.

New documents filed to a New York court claim thou- sands of transactions worth more than $100bn were carried out by the bank from 2008 to 2013 in breach of sanctions against Iran.

An independent expert has identified $9.6bn of foreign exchange transactions with individuals and companies designated by the US government as funding “terror groups”, including Hezbollah, Hamas, al- Qaeda and the Taliban.

In a statement, the bank said it disputes the whistleblowers’ claims, saying their previous allegations had been “thoroughly discredited” by US authorities.

Standard Chartered was publicly accused of falsifying transaction data on Swift—an international payment system used by thousands of financial institutions—to move billions of dollars through its New York branch on behalf of sanctioned entities such as the Central Bank of Iran.

But in September 2012, George Osborne, then chancellor in Lord Cameron’s government, secretly intervened on the bank’s behalf.

Three months later, the US Department of Justice decided not to prosecute the bank.

The foreign exchange trans- actions identified in the court filings were yet to come to light and it is not suggested that Osborne or Lord Cameron had any knowledge of these trans- actions at the time.

The bank has twice admitted breaching sanctions against Iran and other countries – first in 2012 and then in 2019 – paying fines totalling more than $1.7bn. But it has not admitted conducting transactions for “terrorist” organisations.

The transactions lay hidden in confidential bank spread- sheets first handed to the US authorities in 2012 by two whistleblowers, including a former Standard Chartered executive, Julian Knight.

They allege US government agencies made false statements to a court in order to have their claim for a whistleblower’s re- ward dismissed.

The US authorities involved in investigating the bank successfully applied to have their case dismissed in 2019. A FBI agent claimed to a court that it showed nothing that “indicated or suggested that the bank had engaged in improper US dollar transactions” after 2007.

US authorities argued the whistleblower’s allegations “did not lead to the discovery of any new … violations” and the court dismissed the case as “meritless”.

However, independent analysis by an expert with decades of experience with counter- terrorist financing, including at the US Department of Defense and in the private sector, David Scantling, contradicts that.

In a court filing last Friday, he states that the spreadsheets contain records of more than half a million separate transactions between 2008 and 2013 that were “cloaked”, meaning they were not immediately visible in the spreadsheets but could be extracted through a simple technique well-known to analysts in his field.

His declaration says that among the records are numerous transactions by Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), “with or on behalf of Iranian banks, Iranian companies and Middle Eastern money exchanges that, according to [the US government, finance designated foreign terrorist organizations”.

The police attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) have been given orders to detain three Nigerian nationals and two Kenya for a period of 10 days to allow them to conclude investigations of narcotics drugs dealings.

Salako Oluwafeni Samuel ,Adeleye Olushola Stephen, Akinyansa Olutayo Kenshinko, Eve Amondi Ochieng, and Maureen Cherono Kogo were arrested in Kilimani area on 28th May 2024 at around 2.00am on suspicion that they were engaging in organised crime

They are being investigated for traffic narcotics, drugs, and other psychotropic substances.

The police are also probing the validity of passports and other travel documents held by the suspects to be in Kenya.

According to the detectives, the suspects are engaged in multinational drugs syndicate with accomplices that are yet to be arrested.

The seized narcotics were subjected to a forensic analysis,and the report availed.

It took the police a whole day to break into the suspects’ house in kileleshwa,where the drugs were harboured.

The investigators have so far placed Eve Amondi Ochieng on intensive scrutiny as she is suspected to be the key accomplice of the three Nigerian nationals in the case.

The affidavits sworn by lead investors indicate that the suspects have no fixed place of residence in Kenya as they were nabbed at an AirBnB located in Gatundu Road in kileleshwa.

High court judge Chacha Mwita has issued orders stopping police ,EACC and the DPP from arresting,charging and prosecuting Margaret Nyakango over the telecom saga .

“A conservatory order is hereby issued restraining the respondents from arresting, charging
or prosecuting the petitioner in relation
to matters pertaining to her duties as the Controller of Budget until 13th March 2024,” reads the order

Inthe case the embattled Controller of Budget Nyakango claims that she is apprehensive that the respondents are devising a planing including having her charged in a bid to remove her from office.

According to her lawyers Danstan Omari, Nyakango says that the respondents are onthe verge of being abused and misuse to harass and intimidate her .

She says that she has not committed any offence nor has she been involved in any criminal activity .

“The applicant invited this court to insist on defending the rule of law and due process to avert any imminent excess by politically connected individual in government,”reads the application