Ruto Meets Staff In Karen As Detectives Nab Two Directors Over Fake Arms Deal

IN SUMMARY
▪ The two who are directors of Pzel Company Limited, which has been named as having played a role in the scam were driven to the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road for questioning, as other detectives continued to search for any documents relating to the case at Pzel’s company premises.
▪ During the Karen meeting, Dr Ruto was reportedly concerned with among his staff for leaking of information from his office to his political competitors via the media

The DCI Detectives last evening arrested two directors of a company that allegedly received a Sh11.5 million kickback on behalf of suspects in the Sh40 billion fake arms scandal

The two Mr Chrispine Oduor Odipo and Ms Doreen Naomi Ratemo were apprehended last evening at their Plaza 2000 office along Mombasa Road in Nairobi as Detectives from the DCI widened the net in the investigation.

The two who are directors of Pzel Company Limited, which has been named as having played a role in the scam were driven to the DCI headquarters on Kiambu Road for questioning, as other detectives continued to search for any documents relating to the case at Pzel’s company premises.

Mr Mustafa Mamdough and Mr Stanley Kozlowoski, the two foreigners claiming to be directors of American company Eco Advanced Technologies who were allegedly conned by a criminal ring led by former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa, told detectives that it is at Pzel that they were asked to part with Sh11.5 million as consultancy fees to enable them get the military arms contract.

During the Karen meeting, Dr Ruto was reportedly concerned with among his staff for leaking of information from his office to his political competitors via the media

DP was concerned about the growing suspicion among his handlers that certain employees had been retained by the DCI with the aim of discrediting Harambee House Annex.

Seven employees from the DP’s Harambee Annex office have already been questioned by detectives from the serious Crimes Unit of the DCI

Ruto’s admission that Echesa and his team were at his offices for only 23 minutes on the material day has not helped matters.

In an interview with NTV on Tuesday night, the former CS said he did not need an appointment to see the DP.

“The Deputy President is my friend. We have been friends for a long time. I don’t need an appointment to see the Deputy President. And to add onto that, I have been a Cabinet minister,” Mr Echesa said

Sources at Harambee Annex said Mr Echesa was a regular visitor.

Deputy President’s offices are considered highly guarded premises, where visitors can only access the building with prior appointments and records of their entry and exit have to be kept.

The DP has, however, termed last week’s entry into his office by Mr Echesa and the two foreigners who were almost conned as a breach of security.

Read In a letter to Inspector General of Police Mutyambai Ruto seeks to know how the former CS managed to access his office