The High Court has extended an order freezing the bank accounts of Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi and that of her law firm until June 9th, 2023 when a ruling will be issued. This is pending the validity of a case filed involving a Ksh104 million fraud case based on fake gold.
On Friday, June 2nd Justice Alfred Mabeya informed parties in the case that the ruling on the application by Amadi and her son Brian Ochieng seeking to have the freezing orders vacated was not mature.
This necessitated postponing the same orders that were originally issued on May 17th and extending the interim orders to Friday, June 9th.
“When l looked at the documents in this application l found they were more voluminous than what you(Lawyers) submitted on Monday (May 29, 2023). Therefore the ruling is not ready. It will be delivered on Friday, June 9, 2023, at 8 am,” Justice Mabeya stated while postponing the ruling.
The judge had on Monday set today June 2 as the ruling date on the plea by Amadi and her son to lift the order pending the hearing of a lawsuit where a British citizen Demetrios Bradshaw trading as Bruton Gold Trading LLC has sued them over an alleged Ksh100 million gold-selling deal.
In an affidavit filed in court, Amadi distanced herself from the gold deal.
” No evidence has been tendered in support of the general allegations that I have fraudulently benefited from the alleged undelivered gold consignment,” she states in her response to the suit by Bruton.
“I confirm that no such sums relating to the impugned transaction were ever deposited to my personal bank accounts and petitioner has failed to tender any evidence that I was a beneficiary of the alleged fraud,” Amadi adds in her affidavit.
Further, she informed the court that she had ceased private practice in 2014 when she was appointed to Judiciary and was unaware of the transaction that had caused her to be mentioned in the matter filed against her.