An anti-corruption court will today issue directions in a case in which former Migori Governor Okoth Obado, his children and proxies are facing a Sh73m graft case.
The Court will proceed with the hearing of a graft case against former Migori Governor Okoth Obado, his children and proxies.
The accused persons face charges ranging from conspiracy to commit economic crimes, conflict of interest, unlawful acquisition of public property and money laundering.
The court has since heard that Obado and his co-accused exaggerated the prices of goods and services to unfairly confer financial benefits to themselves.
EACC Investigating officer Robert Rono has since testified and produced bank transactions showing how money was moved from the coffers of the county government of Migori into those of the accused persons.
He has been testifying for the last three years since the hearing began.
The prosecution has lined up 58 more witnesses to testify in a bid to prove the case against Obado and his co-accused persons
Separately, the court is expected to proceed with a case in which five people including Triton Petroleum are accused of jointly disposing off 13 million cubic metres of diesel worth Sh32,047,783 without the consent of Emirates National Oil Corporation (Singapore).
The accused persons are all charged with conspiring to defraud a number of petroleum companies by purporting that Triton had diesel ready for sale at KPC storage in Kipevu.
Businessman Yagnesh Devani was also an accused person in this case but it proceeded in his absence as he was still a fugitive at the time.
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