A Nairobi court sets free businessman Yagnesh Devani after it allowed the DPP’s application to have the matter withdrawn.
The court in its ruling said that there’s no reason not to allow the application adding that no witness had testified inthe matter .
“I find no reason to reject the application to withdraw this case. I hereby allow that applicants and proceed to discharge the accused person…. It is ordered accordingly,” court ruled.
Inthe matter Devani was charged with charged with fraud in relation to the 2008 Triton oil scandal
He was on the run for the past decade was arrested in August this year following a warrant of arrest that had been issued by the courts in 2009.
When he was charged the prosecution applied to have Devani denied bail saying that he is a flight risk.
However, early this month the DPP applied to have Devani acquitted on grounds that some of the witnesses in the case have died.
