Finance scandal in Nairobi

FORMER Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi accepted bribes, a company chief at the centre of the East African nation’s biggest financial scandal told an inquiry yesterday.

Kamlesh Pattni, the major shareholder of Goldenberg International, said he gave Moi €60,000 and an unspecified number of shares in the company at a meeting set up by a senior intelligence official in August 1990.

After taking the money, Moi approved Goldenberg’s proposed business plan and promised to call top government officials and give them the go-ahead to help the business, Pattni told the judicial inquiry in Nairobi.