Kenya’s director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji has castigated the release and circulation of an audio recording doing rounds on social media , saying, “Such claims and their circulation through social media, specifically through leaked phone recordings in today’s age of real-time, borderless publishing, are alarmist and may needlessly cause disaffection.
He warned that “unless all facts are obtained and analysed, it is irresponsible and possibly unlawful to publish such material.”
The leaked audio recording of a conversation between a purported local fixer of the UAE middlemen had muddied the waters of the ongoing probe into Sh400 million scam with names of President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga being dropped.
Here is the audio that had leaked.
Wow. This is a huge expose. I think the position of senator Moses Wetangula is no longer tenable. pic.twitter.com/ZQMg6fEVzC
— Ahmed Mohamed ((ASMALi)) (@Asmali77) May 17, 2019
Police have so far detained several suspects in the fake gold syndicate that has defrauded dozens of unsuspecting foreigners in Nairobi. The operation was triggered by a complaint by members of the Dubai royal family to the state.
At the centre of the investigation is extortion of millions of shillings purportedly to secure release of five tonnes of gold allegedly seized at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.
The “seizure” was supposedly the first tranche of a 23-tonne gold consignment that was to be brought from the Democratic Republic of Congo.