Revealed: Most Powerful Tycoon in Kenya, the dollar billionaire extraordinaire

A dully registered advocate and in full practice under Kenyan law under David Raffman, Dhanji Virdee Advocates, Guy Spencer Elms is the ultimate boss of bosses when it comes to the sustained orchestration of mega corruption in Kenya, and in some instances even beyond Kenya, going by the arrest warrant issued against him in Iceland in relation to money laundering.

Revealingly, a keen scrutiny of his close associates exposes a complex and closely knit web of well-known movers and architects of major scandals who include Kenya’s most wanted fugitive Deepak Kimani and his numerous fictitious outfits and proxies such as Primarosa Flowers Ltd.

Vindictively, Guy Spencer Elms is adversely mentioned in the Panama Papers that were leaked by German newspaper, SüddeutscheZeitung, showing how corruption tycoons are involved in laundering and stashing of their dirty, stolen billions of dollars in offshore accounts.

Capricorn Marketing Limited, a company associated with Guy Spencer was among the top 25 offshore entities that were implicated in Panama Papers as culpable for very worrying and dangerously excessive capital flight from Kenya and under who very suspicious billions of dollars are held in their offshore accounts. Curiously the company is registered in the Bahamas.

However, despite deep involvement in the many scandals that have robbed Kenya billions and billions of shillings, Guy Spencer has never realistically faced justice. So how have they managed to beat the justice system?

A case filed at Milimani Law Courts in 2007, Alldean Satellite Networks (Kenya) Ltd vs Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) provided the much needed insight into the cunning operations of the mafia-like corruption cartels boss.

On the 27th March 2007, Kibera court gave the then KACC (now EACC) a search warrant to investigate the premises of Guy Spencer Elms, David Raffman, Dhanji Virdee Advocates and Primarosa Flowers Ltd in connection with the shocking Anglo-Leasing scandal that doomed and continues to hurt Kenya’s economic fortunes.

Guy Spencer Elms, has been implicated in Kenya’s mega scams

 

For the unacquainted , Anglo Leasing is a multi-billion shillings corruption scam; Anglo Leasing Finance was paid about 3.2 billion to supply the Kenyan government with a system to print new high-technology passports; other fictitious companies involved in the scam were given money to supply naval ships and forensic laboratories.

Alongside the chief architect Deepak Kimani, several other high profile people were implicated in Anglo Leasing scandal by then British envoy Sir Edward Clay and whistleblower John Githongo.

In its investigation, KACC named several entities that were deeply and critically involved in the Anglo Leasing scam. The anti-corruption body adversely mentioned Guy Spencer Elms of David Raffman, DhanjiVirdee Advocates and his company Primarosa Flowers Ltd co-owned with Deepak Kimani, in connection with the dubious contracts that defined the scam.

But KACC was never going to succeed in pursuing crucial prosecution of some of these very powerful and well connected individuals because they had the resources and the knowhow to maneuver and beat the justice system.

In Alldean Satellite Networks (Kenya) Ltd vs Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), the applicant Alldean Satellite Networks, a company associated with Guy Spencer, moved to court to accuse KACC of being in contempt of court for lawfully raiding the premises of Guy Spencer.

In this display of tactical manipulation of court process and misuse of applicable law to alter the course of justice against persons implicated in the Anglo Leasing scandal, Guy Spencer Elms sought to beat the Kenyan justice system in its own game by maliciously seeking punitive prosecution of Mr. Kiarie the Chief Magistrate Kibera court and KACC officers for dully executing their lawful mandate.

Whereas it is the contention of most that the battle on corruption must persist, albeit with heightened diligence, it will only be until the likes of Guy Spencer and ilk are brought to book will Kenyans stand a realistic chance of winning the war against corruption.