NASA Presidential running mate Kalonzo Musyoka risks arrest for suspected money laundering and diversion of donor aid by his Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation.
The NGO Coordination Board says the charitable trust received Sh50 million from China that could not be traced, and was among Sh146 million the organisation could not account for.
“The Board finds that there is sufficient cause to warrant forensic investigations into the affairs of the Kalonzo Musyoka Foundation on possible cases of money laundering and diversion of donor aid," a letter dated yesterday and signed by Executive Director Fazul Mahamad said.
“Subsequently, the Board has already initiated a legal process of ascertaining the level of criminal culpability of the directors of the foundation with respect to their fiduciary responsibility to the laws of Kenya, the intended beneficiaries and the people of Kenya,” Fazal said.
Last evening Kalonzo told the Star that he will respond to the issue today, once he has seen the letter.
“We have not seen the letter,” said Kalonzo.
Other sources in the KMF, however, said Fazal’s actions were politically motivated and that the Kalonzo family was considering legal action against him.
“We know where they met on Monday to plan this. The whole idea is to spoil Kalonzo and his family’s reputation,” one source told the Star.
According to KMF sources, one of the accounts has Sh300,000 and the other has Sh500,000. It is from these two accounts that the foundation has been running the Mama Malia School
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