KANGEMI MATATU OWNER LOSES SIX MINIBUSSES TO THE STATE.

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BY SAM ALFAN.

Assets Recovery Agency has won big after the High Court ordered did vehicles belonging to a suspected drug trafficker be forfeited to the state.

Other than five minibuses, a salon car, Justice Mumbi Ngugi ordered the seizure of Sh1.78 million held in two accounts belonging to Rose Musanda saying they are proceeds of crime.

“It is my finding that the applicant( Assets Recovery Agency) has established, on a balance of probabilities, that the motor vehicles and funds the subject of this application are proceeds of crime, and that they should be forfeited to the state,” ordered Mumbi.

The money to be forfeited to the state are  Sh 1,462,963.47 being held at Sidian Bank Kangemi Branch while another Sh325,712.45 is being held at Diamond Trust Bank, Madina mall branch under her name

The properties include six motor vehicles KCM 465 X Toyota Axio, KCR 297A Isuzu Bus Coach, KBT 692W Isuzu Bus coach, KCC 646D Isuzu bus coach, KBY 184H Isuzu bus coach, KCH 179N bus coach.

According to ARA through Mohamed Adow the deposits in the bank accounts were from the illegal narcotic trade that she engaged in.

The woman had put up a spirited fight to save the money, which was frozen through an application by the Assets Recovery Agency.

She argued that the money was part of her daily income from her matatu and second hand clothes businesses.

In her ruling justice Mumbi said that despite being an owner of at least six bus coaches and a vendor of second hand clothes, Musanda failed to place any documents that can establish the earnings from her businesses.

The woman was charged at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport court on June 17,2029 with trafficking narcotics.

Officers searched her home in Kinoo, Kiambu County, and recovered Sh 25 million and an unknown substance, which was sent to the Government Chemist for sampling, weighting, valuation and analysis. The substance was found to contain heroin at 40 per cent purity.

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