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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>A court in Kisii has given the Ethics and Anti-Corruption detectives the green light to recover Sh26 million from former Homa Bay County Assembly clerk Boaz Otieno. He was charged with fraud in 2017.<\/p>\n

On Friday, regional EACC director Enock Otiko said the case bordered on a conflict of interest where an entity registered in a family name did business with the assembly where he worked. An EACC investigation found out that Otieno was the signatory of the entity sparking arrests and prosecution. The ruling was done on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“We are happy that we got this ruling in favour of the commission. However at this stage, we only have a green light to go for proceeds but the proceedings on the criminal aspect remain live in court,” Otiko said. He said the commission has scaled up interest in seizing proceeds of crime and reverting it to the state.<\/p>\n

“We have gotten more deliberate in targeting any property that are proceeds of ill-gotten wealth. Already we have active cases where people have tried to benefit from public wealth, currently, these are the primary focus of most of our probes,” Otiko said.<\/p>\n

The regional boss said they would be further targeting action cases arising from the Auditor General Report. “It is a matter of time but we shall act,” Otiko told journalists.<\/p>\n

He said it doesn’t matter how long it would take as long as justice would finally be achieved Otiko said other similar investigations are still going on in Kisii, Nyamira and Migori.<\/p>\n

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