This archive report was first published on 24 July 2019.
On July 23, 2019, Italian construction company CMC di Ravenna released a statement denying any wrongdoing in the Arror-Kimwarer dams scandal.
The company stated that it was already working with the Kenyan judicial authority to settle the matter as soon as possible.
However, Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji alleged that the company had not cooperated with investigators.
Kenya was expected to seek the extradition of one of the company's directors to face charges in Nairobi.
Treasury Minister Henry Rotich pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in connection with the loss of billions of shillings in tenders related to the planned construction of two dams.
Rotich, who was freed on Ksh. 15 million bail, is one of 26 people facing charges related to the Arror and Kimwarer dams scandal.
Prosecutors accused CMC di Ravenna and Kenyan officials of inflating the cost of building the two dams in the west of the country to Ksh. 63 billion shillings from an original cost of Ksh. 46 billion.
The government made advance payments of Ksh. 19 billion, including Ksh. 11 billion in unnecessary debt insurance, which prosecutors said was shared out in accounts belonging to the conspirators and their agents.
CMC di Ravenna denied any links to those arrangements, stating that the accusation referred to the conditions of the financing by banks of primary international standing.
