Kenya urges UK to send back Devani over Triton fraud case

Kenya has requested  the British government to hand over fugitive billionaire Yagnesh Devani to face charges related to the Sh7.6 billion Triton scandal.

The move by Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji is part of efforts to have the businessman, who has been on the run since 2009, stand trial in what is now the country’s longest active corruption trial.

“We have made all the necessary arrangements to ensure that he is back in Kenya to face trial once he exceeds all his appeals in the UK,” Mr Haji told the Sunday Nation.

The DPP revealed Mr Devani filed a case at the UK Supreme Court to stop his extradition to Kenya.

The fugitive moved to the UK Supreme Court after the Court of Appeal, in a ruling in May, allowed his extradition.

“If he loses the case at the Supreme Court, he will be on the first flight home so that he faces trial for the crimes which he committed,” the DPP said.