{"id":67673,"date":"2024-07-19T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/19\/kpa-official-arrested-over-conflict-of-interest-fraud\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:03:25","slug":"kpa-official-arrested-over-conflict-of-interest-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kpa-official-arrested-over-conflict-of-interest-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"KPA official arrested over conflict of interest, fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An employee of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has been arrested over conflict of interest and procurement fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Friday morning arrested Janet Mwendwa, to face charges over a fraudulent tender worth Ksh 6,436,934.40 awarded to a company owned by her daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe official who is suspected to have traded with KPA through her daughter\u2019s company, participated in the tender evaluation process leading to the award,\u201d said EACC.<\/p>\n<p>She has been escorted to the Mombasa Anti-Corruption Court to take a plea.<\/p>\n<p>Janet was arrested after the DPP concurred with the Commission\u2019s recommendations that she be charged with conflict of interest, unlawful acquisition of public property, fraudulent practice in procurement and uttering false documents, contrary to the law.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kpa-official-arrested-over-conflict-of-interest-fraud\/\">KPA official arrested over conflict of interest, fraud<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An employee of the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) has been arrested over conflict of interest and procurement fraud. Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Friday morning arrested Janet Mwendwa, to face charges over a fraudulent tender worth Ksh 6,436,934.40 awarded to a company owned by her daughter. \u201cThe official who is suspected to have traded with [&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-67673","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\/67673","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=67673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}