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Ex-Pipeline boss freed in Sh644m corruption case

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Former Kenya Pipeline managing director Charles Tanui. [File, Standard]

The Anti-corruption Court has acquitted former Kenya Pipeline managing director Charles Tanui and fifteen others over charges of conspiring to defraud the parastatal of Sh644 million for lack of evidence.

Chief Magistrate Felix Kombo freed Tanui and his co-accused persons on the conspiracy charge stating that the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they committed the offence.

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