A person arrested with sh 20 billion fake currency saga now wants his money back insisting that it was genuine.
Mr. Adede was arrested on March 19, alongside traders Mohamed Ejaz alias Shah, Mary Wanjiru Mwangi alias Elizabeth Muthoni and Irene Wairimu Kimani.
They all faced a joint charge of conspiring to defraud businessman Mr. Muriithi Materi Mbuthia of Sh20 million at the bank’s Queensway branch while pretending to be investors.
Mr. Erick Adede now wants DCI to produce the money arguing that DCI might tamper with the aforesaid currency that does not form part of the criminal case.
Eric Otieno Adede said over Ksh.20billion should be presented in court within 24 hours of the hearing of the filed application.
“The applicant is apprehensive that the DCI might tamper thus depriving him of his money,” Adede said.
According to him, the DCI is illegally holding and has continued to withhold the said sums of money that do not form a part of the charges in the criminal case.
According to the court papers, Adede claims that the DCI is illegally and in bad faith withholding the said sums of money without any legitimate basis nor orders of the court.
Adede affirmed that he is the owner of a box held at Barclays Bank Queens way branch containing 420,067,900 in 100-dollar domination among other items.
He added that on March 19, 2019, the DCI with the collusion of Barclays in full glare of media, hastily and unlawfully broke into said box and seized the contents there belonging to him.
He claims that he has been a holder of the box at Barclays since November 25, 2017.