The Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi is in soup over a multi-milliom gold scam. Ms Amadi is together with her son alleged to have defrauded a British man Sh. 102 million in a gold scam the two allegedly orchestrated.
This has seen Amadi lose access to her bank accounts which have now been frozen by the High Court.
According to court papers, Demetrow Bradshaw claims that he paid Amadi through her law firm $742,206 (Sh. 102,090,435) for the supply of 1,500 kilogrammes of gold bars in what turned out to have be a scheme to defraud him of his millions.
“She is among those who orchestrated a fraudulent scheme to obtain money by false pretence through her law firm Amadi and Associates Advocates. They received the funds and hurriedly withdrew them in cash without adequate supporting documentation,” Bradshaw swore in his affidavit.
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Amadi’s accounts have been frozen together with those of her son Brian Ochieng Amadi.
“Pending the hearing and determination of the suit, the court also issues an order that the personal bank accounts belonging to Amadi, her son and the other two respondents be frozen. They should not withdraw any amount from the accounts without court’s permission,” Justice David Majanja ruled.
Bradshaw has through his company Bruton Gold Trading LLC sued Amadi, her son Brian, lawyer Andrew Kiarie, lawyer Adrian Topoti, businessman Daniel Kangara alias Dan Muriithi and Liberian national Edward Taylor alias Mboronda Seyenkulo Sakor.
The transactions for the deals are said to have taken place between September 22, 2021 and October 21, 2021.
“A total of US$ 592,970 (Sh. 81,236,890) was sent to (Amadi’s) firm-via-bank-transfer-by-Aeras DWC LLC, the Plaintiff’s sister company, for and on behalf of the Plaintiff, into the (Amadi’s) law firm-account, number-011215011005599,” and affidavit before court said.
Bradshaw then made additional payments totaling US$ 149,236.48 (Sh. 20,445,398).