{"id":1254,"date":"2024-02-16T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/court-declines-request-by-dpp-to-withdraw-sh30mn-graft-case-against-ex-kpc-md-tanui\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T10:04:02","slug":"court-declines-request-by-dpp-to-withdraw-sh30mn-graft-case-against-ex-kpc-md-tanui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-declines-request-by-dpp-to-withdraw-sh30mn-graft-case-against-ex-kpc-md-tanui\/","title":{"rendered":"Court declines request by DPP to withdraw Sh30mn graft case against ex-KPC MD Tanui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 \u2013 A court in Nairobi has declined a request by the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw a Sh30 million corruption case against former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) Managing Director Charles Tanui<\/strong> and two others.<\/p>\n<p>It instead ordered that the case that also involved Elias Karumi and who was chief manager in charge of the Technical department and Josphat Sirima who was the chief Engineer continue to its logical conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>They had been charged with the irregular payment of Sh30 million for the supply of three transformers in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>They all, however, denied the charges before anti-corruption Chief Magistrate Douglas Ogoti and were released on a cash bail of Sh700,000 each or an alternative Sh3 million bond and one surety.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, 25 witnesses who were called declined to testify. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 16 \u2013 A court in Nairobi has declined a request by the Director of Public Prosecutions to withdraw a Sh30 million corruption case against former Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) Managing Director Charles Tanui and two others. It instead ordered that the case that also involved Elias Karumi and who was chief manager [&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-1254","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\/1254","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=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}