A businessman has today been convicted by a Nairobi Anti -Corruption court for giving a bribe of Ksh. 100,000 to a female police officer.
Paul Mwangi Warutere was fined Ksh.300,000 or serve 2 years imprisonment after prosecuting counsel Victor Onyiego established a bribery case against the accused person beyond reasonable doubt.
Warutere gave Ksh. 100,000 to a Police Corporal attached to Central police station within Nairobi County with the aim of gaining favours from the investigating officer in Milimani CR.NO.2155 OF 2019 in which the accused person, his father and wife were charged with conspiracy to defraud millions of shillings.
He offered a bribe of Ksh. 100,000 to a public officer on the 16th January 2020 in the Republic of Kenya within Nairobi.
Principal Magistrate Isabellah Barasa sentenced Warutere to a fine of Ksh.150,000 or in default to serve 2 years for offering a bribe to a police officer and to pay another fine of Ksh.150,000 in default serve 2 years imprisonment for giving a bribe of Ksh.100,000 to a police officer.
She directed the offence to run sentences will run consecutively.