NAIROBI, Kenya, July 21 – The Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) has frozen property related to Judy Chepchirchir, who’s the director of the First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency Limited, which is accused of defrauding Kenyans with faux abroad jobs.
ARA Acting DG Mark Ogonji on Gazette Notice prohibited Chepchirchir or any of her associates from promoting, transferring, or disposing of automobiles, land, and property.
“2. THAT the Respondent be and is hereby directed to give up the unique logbooks of the motor automobiles and the motor automobiles laid out in order 1 above to the Applicant forthwith however not later than 14 days from the date of issuance of this order,” Ogonji stated within the discover.
“3. THAT within the occasion the Respondent fails to give up the above motor automobiles as laid out in order 2 above, the Applicant be at liberty to grab, detain and take custody of the motor automobiles specified therein,” he added.
“4. THAT an order be issued directing the Director General of the National Transport and Safety Authority to register a caveat in opposition to the information of every of the motor automobiles laid out in order 1 above.”
Chepchirchir’s two land blocks in Eldoret have additionally been positioned underneath caveat, which means she can not promote or switch them to every other particular person or entity.
“7. THAT order be and is issued to the 2nd Interested Party to register a caveat in its file in respect to Unit No. W55 A Three-Bedroom Apartment in Athi River underneath the venture identify GWG5 underneath development by the 2nd Interested Party and to offer the sale settlement, assertion of account and every other.”
First Choice Recruitment has been underneath scrutiny for allegedly defrauding job seekers by means of false guarantees of abroad employment, together with international locations reminiscent of Qatar.
Last yr, ARA opened probe on 27 accounts linked to the important thing suspects in First Choice Recruitment and Consultancy Agency Limited for potential monetary misconduct, together with cash laundering and fraud.
In 2023, the Senate Committee ordered the company to refund Sh1 billion allegedly paid by hundreds in Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu, Nakuru, and Elgeyo Marakwet Counties who have been promised job alternatives overseas.
