DPP Noordin Haji has directed the DCI to
ensure that securities and funds presented by freed NYS suspects are not proceeds of crime.
The 48 suspects in the Sh9 billion National Youth Service scandal were reprieved on Tuesday by the High Court's decision to grant them release pending their trial.
Judge Hedwig Ong'udi freed them on Sh5 million bond with sureties of Sh2 million each, with concurrent cash bails of Sh1 million each.
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In a letter to DCI Director George Kinoti on Wednesday, Haji noted
that the Assets Recovery Agency had raised concerns that "some of the funds intended to be use are not only suspect bus also the subject of current cases".
Ongu’di
released the suspects under strict conditions including surrendering their passports and never going to their offices without police officers.
The terms will be approved by a Chief Magistrate of the Anti-Corruption Court.
Ongu’di
said the DPP did not give compelling reasons for the continued remand of the suspects.
The suspects, who were released 23 days after arrest, are facing charges ranging
from abuse of office, conspiracy to commit economic crimes, willful
failure to comply with applicable laws and theft of public property.
