The State is the process of getting permission to recover businesswoman Joyce Akinyi's multi-million shilling property linked to drug trafficking. Akinyi was arrested in July last year while in possession of a kilogram of heroin at her Deep West Hotel residence in Nairobi. ARA argued that they began investigations soon after Akinyi’s arrest and prosecution to establish the sources of her wealth. Mr Muriuki swore that Akinyi’s bank accounts received "suspiciously huge sums" that indicated she was engaged in money laundering and that at one point, she deposited Sh20 million in a day without disclosing the source. “We established that her two bank accounts had a total deposit of Sh34 million within a span of two years.

Source: Standard Digital September 24, 2020 21:01 UTC