Anne Amadi, Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, has received a big reprieve after the High Court overturned an order freezing her bank accounts in the Sh100 million gold controversy.
Justice Alfred Mabeya overturned the orders, stating that there is no proof linking Amadi to the alleged gold sale scam.
The judge stated that Amadi was drawn into the case by the fact that her son Brian Ochieng was in charge of the day-to-day operations of the law firm that she had founded.
While enforcing the orders, Justice Mabeya pointed out that Amadi was not in charge of the law firm at the time the alleged transactions took place.
“The law firm is the one who received the disputed funds from the foreign investor.” “In my opinion, there is no absolute evidence from the evidence on record safe for the letter dated June 9, 2020, of the opening of an account at ABC Bank by a Lawfirm associated with Amadi to show that Anne Atieno Amadi was involved in the day-to-day running of the law firm,” the judge said.
Mabeya went on to say that there is no indication that Amadi benefited from the monies wired in by British citizen Demetrios Bradshaw, doing business as Bruton Gold Trading LLC.
” I also find that there is nothing to show that Amadi either benefited from the said funds or participated in the alleged fraud, further there is nothing to connect her with the receipt and the disbursement of the subject funds, Justice Mabeya ruled.
The judge further stated that even though Amadi continues to be the propriety of the law firm which is still in existence even now when she is the CRJ of the Republic of Kenya is something that would have attracted much public interest.
The freezing orders had been issued after Bradshaw sued them over an alleged Ksh 100 million gold-selling deal.
The money in question was meant for the purchase of 1,500kg of gold bars but the consignment never arrived in Dubai.
