The officer, named Jamal Bare, has been battling the EACC in court since 2017 over KSh 47 million that the anti-graft agency was seeking from him.
According to the agency, the officer amassed his vast fortune through mysterious means.
He is believed to have earned a monthly gross compensation of between KSh 33,050 and KSh 38,630, which defies sense given his alleged fortune of millions.
According to the evidence given in court, Bare used to deposit between KSh 200,000 and KSh 500,000 weekly.
“During the six years, we established that he had cumulative assets, cash and land valued at KSh47 million. He had banked KSh26 million, which has been frozen through a court order,” an official from EACC said.
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The EACC was perplexed as to how Bare could collect such fortune on a salary that could only amount to KSh 2 million over the six years the agency has been following him.
Moreover, the anti-graft authority stated during the case’s hearing last year that it acted on complaints from members of the public who accused Bare of pestering and collecting bribes from motorists
The officer agreed to submit the funds to the state to settle the situation.
“The sum of KSh26,193,071 held in Equity Bank account number (withheld) in the name of Jamal Bare Mohamed be and is hereby forfeited to the government,” an agreement between the parties reads.
Bare said that a substantial portion of the cash was a bequest from his father, who died in 1987.
EACC, on the other hand, refuted his claim, claiming that he was only ten years old when his father died.
Bare, who began working for the police department in August 1996, claimed his father left him 120 camels, 80 cows, and 200 goats.
