{"id":110619,"date":"2025-02-18T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/ex-kpc-employees-truck-driver-jailed-for-25-years-over-fuel-theft\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T19:03:44","slug":"ex-kpc-employees-truck-driver-jailed-for-25-years-over-fuel-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ex-kpc-employees-truck-driver-jailed-for-25-years-over-fuel-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-KPC Employees, Truck Driver Jailed for 25 Years Over Fuel Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18<\/strong> \u2013 Two former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) employees and a truck driver have been sentenced to a combined 25 years in prison for stealing petroleum products and tampering with KPC\u2019s fuel monitoring systems.<\/p>\n<p>Kisumu Law Courts Chief Magistrate D.O. Onyango handed Reuben Andolo Aseneka, a former loading island operator, and Mutai Micah, a former ICT employee, a nine-year jail term or a fine of Sh10 million each. Their co-accused, Joseph Mbugua Maina, a truck driver, was sentenced to seven years in jail or a fine of Sh5.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The three were found guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony, theft of petroleum products, illegal tampering with KPC\u2019s fuel monitoring systems (Fuelfacs and Acculoads), and unauthorized access to KPC\u2019s computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>In the ruling, the court sentenced each of the accused to one year in prison or a fine of Sh100,000 for conspiracy to commit a felony. They were also sentenced to one year in prison or a fine of Sh200,000 for the theft of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>For tampering with KPC\u2019s fuel monitoring systems, Aseneka and Mutai were sentenced to five years in prison or a fine of Sh10 million each. Additionally, they were handed a two-year jail term or a fine of Sh200,000 each for unauthorized access to KPC\u2019s Fuelfacs systems.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mbugua was sentenced to five years in prison or a fine of Sh5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The court heard that the trio conspired to steal Motor Spirit Premium (MSP) fuel that had been loaded onto a road tanker (Reg. No. KBJ 564D\/ZD 1453).<\/p>\n<p>The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Catherine Mwaniki, Patrick Okango, and Shitsama Ligami.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 18 \u2013 Two former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) employees and a truck driver have been sentenced to a combined 25 years in prison for stealing petroleum products and tampering with KPC\u2019s fuel monitoring systems. Kisumu Law Courts Chief Magistrate D.O. Onyango handed Reuben Andolo Aseneka, a former loading island operator, and Mutai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}