Former Kenya Power managing director Ken Tarus is a free man after an anti-corruption court allowed the withdrawal of Sh159 million in fraud charges against him.
The court has allowed an application by the office of the DPP to withdraw corruption charges levelled against Tarus.
The case was marked as withdrawn after the DPP informed the court that no offence had been revealed against Tarus.
This was established after the ODPP team reviewed the evidence they had.
Anti-corruption magistrate Elizabeth Juma withdrew the case under section 87 (a) of the civil procedure code saying the court cannot compel the DPP to proceed with the case if it has reached a decision not to.
The court will, however, hear the case against eight others who were charged with Tarus to conclusion.
Dr Tarus and the other eight were charged with conspiring to commit an economic crime by carelessly failing to comply with the procedures and guidelines relating to procurement which led to the fraudulent payment of Sh159 million to companies that were unprocedural pre-qualified for labour and transport services vide tender No KPI/9AA-2/58/PJT/16-17.
The former MD faced a separate charge of wilful failure to comply with the law relating to management of public funds as the accounting officer of KP by approving a list of entities (companies) irregularly pre-qualified to render labour and transport services.
He, however, denied the charges.
