{"id":1064055,"date":"2022-04-22T03:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/nyeri-governor-aspirant-has-case-to-answer-in-ksh-791m-nys-scandal-case-court-rules\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T03:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:47:36","slug":"nyeri-governor-aspirant-has-case-to-answer-in-ksh-791m-nys-scandal-case-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/nyeri-governor-aspirant-has-case-to-answer-in-ksh-791m-nys-scandal-case-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyeri Governor Aspirant Has Case To Answer In Ksh.791M NYS Scandal Case, Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/nyeri.jpg\" alt width=\"867\" height=\"461\">Former Family Bank CEO Peter Munyiri has a case to answer in the Ksh.791 million National Youth Service money laundering case, a Nairobi court has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi said that only four suspects among the six who were charged were found with a case to answer.<\/p>\n<p>Munyiri was charged alongside other six senior bank employees for not reporting suspicious bank transactions carried out by the main NYS scandal suspect Josephine Kabura.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving analyzed the evidence before the court, I found that the prosecution has proved its case against Munyiri, second, third and fourth accused,\u201d Andayi said.<\/p>\n<p>Munyiri, a Nyeri governor aspirant, last week asked the court to acquit him arguing that the Director of Public Prosecutions had failed to prove a<em>&nbsp;prima facie<\/em> case against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to make an application for all the accused persons. I will be asking this court to acquit my client and his co-accused under Section 210 of the Constitution.&nbsp;The DPP has failed to prove a case against them. The charges against them are bad in law,\u201d said lawyer Mr Kioko Kilukumi.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been pending in court for the last 6 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Family Bank CEO Peter Munyiri has a case to answer in the Ksh.791 million National Youth Service money laundering case, a Nairobi court has ruled. In his ruling, Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi said that only four suspects among the six who were charged were found with a case to answer. Munyiri was charged alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3887],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}