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MP wants committee to investigate Waki probe

Two Kenyans Paul Gicheru and Philip Kipkoech Bett were even arrested and presented before a High Court Judge in July before being released.

The Pre-Trial Chamber II had found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Philip Kipkoech Bett, also known as “Kipseng’erya” and Paul Gicheru are criminally responsible for offences against the administration of justice consisting in corruptly influencing prosecution witnesses.”

The judges issued the warrants of arrest following the prosecution’s application on February 9, 2015 that the two and another individual were interfering with ICC witnesses.

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda detailed a scheme to demonstrate how the two interfered with the six witnesses and offered money to them and also entice them to inform other witnesses of the scheme.

Bensouda told the court that the two were part of a systematically designed scheme meant to approach and corrupt ICC witnesses by bribing and inducing them using other means to make them recant their evidence.

Gicheru was alleged to have been the manager and coordinator of the scheme in that he finalised agreements with witnesses who had been interfered with.

The prosecutor said he handled their withdrawal as witnesses and initiated their reward payments.

On the other hand, Bett’s role was to contact the witnesses and make proposals to them before introducing them to Gicheru who was the manager.

After corrupting witnesses, Gicheru and Bett are said to have used them to approach others.

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A third Kenyan, Walter Barasa is still wanted by the ICC for influencing prosecution witnesses but he is yet to be extradited to The Hague to face charges after he contested the warrant in the Kenyan courts.

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