/ 26 July 1999

DON’T SAY ARAP MOI

KENYAN authorities have deported a Dubai-based businessman after he released documents linking President Daniel arap Moi to a financial scandal, local newspapers reported on Sunday. Nassir Ibrahim Ali, who holds Canadian and Pakistani passports, was deported late on Friday, four days after he made public letters Moi allegedly wrote to government officials of several Arab countries asking for money to finance his party’s campaign in the run-up to multi-party elections in 1992. One of Moi’s emissaries to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Oman and Brunei was Kamlesh Pattni. Pattni is a Kenyan businessman of Indian descent, who is on trial for allegedly siphoning off $200-million worth of export bonuses from state coffers for fictitious sales of gold and diamonds in the early 1990s, in the so-called Goldenberg affair.