◆Anura Perera,
◆Deepak Kamani,
◆Joseph "Jimmy" Wanjigi.
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shadowy firm, Anglo Leasing and Finance Limited (Anglo
Leasing), had secured two bogus contracts with the Government of Kenya (GOK). The first was for the supply of new secure passport issuing equipment, and the second for
the construction of a police forensics lab. Together, the two contracts were worth a combined $90 million. Anglo-
Leasing, it turned out, was no more than a "PO Box company"
with fictitious offices in the UK and Switzerland and no identifiable officers or management.
Githongo. Githongo's investigations revealed Anglo-Leasing to be only the tip of an iceberg of grand-scale theft.
They forced the Ministry of Finance to suspend payments and order forensic audits on 18 secretive security-related
procurement contracts that followed a very similar pattern to that found in the Anglo-Leasing cases.
cadre of senior government conspirators. Together, they
would generate proposals for large-scale government procurement contracts. Because these contracts involved national security equipment of one kind or another, they
fell well outside the normal (and already weak) systems of
scrutiny and oversight found in other parts of the GOK and Parliament. The proposals frequently requested goods not needed or desired by the line ministry targeted to pay for
them, and involved large upfront payments or commissions
financed by loans arranged by the businessmen.
at all. This kind of scam generated enormous illicit profits, much of which were recycled by the businessmen who
received the payments to the concerned GOK officials and
other middlemen for personal gain or to finance future political campaigns.