This archive report was first published on 26 July 2019.
David Kimosop, the former managing director of Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA), has been arrested at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday morning.
He was returning to the country from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mr. Kimosop was the last big-name suspect in the Sh63 billion Kimwarer and Arror dams scandal to be arrested.
Other key suspects, including former Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, former principal secretaries Kamau Thugge and Susan Koech, and National Environment Management Authority Director-General Geoffrey Wahungu, were charged and released on Tuesday.
Mr. Kimosop's lawyer, Katwa Kigen, had requested the court to give him more time to present his client for plea-taking because he had travelled outside the country.
"David Kimosop travelled to Congo and he was supposed to have landed on Saturday," Mr. Kigen said. "I requested him to come earlier and he said that by Thursday he shall have landed. I am requesting to present him on Friday for the plea."
Mr. Kigen's statement was made on the day of Mr. Kimosop's arrest. Mr. Kimosop is accused of conspiring with the directors of Italian company CMC Di Ravenna to defraud taxpayers in the construction of Kimwarer Dam. He is also accused of jointly conspiring to defraud the government of Sh27,740,760,550 between December 17, 2014 and September 27, 2018.
