PROSECUTORS ORDERED TO SPEED UP INVESTIGATIONS ON HARRY KITILYA'S TRIAL

Former Commissioner General with Tanzania
Revenue Authority (TRA), Harry Kitilya.

The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday ordered the prosecution to expedite the investigations into the trial of former Commissioner General with Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA), Harry Kitilya and two others, facing 12bn/-money laundering charges.

Principal Resident Magistrate Thomas Simba gave the directive yesterday when the case came for mention. The prosecution had told the court that investigations into the matter have not been completed and the case file had been forwarded to investigators.

“The file of the case is with the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau for implementation of some directives. For that matter the investigations into the case are still incomplete.

We pray for another mention date,” State Attorney said. The magistrate granted the request and adjourned the matter to July 11, for mention.

Other accused persons in the matter apart from Kitilya are Shose Sinare, who is former Miss Tanzania and Head of Investment Banking at Stanbic Bank and Sioi Graham Solomon, former Chief Legal Counsel to the bank.

Apart from money laundering count, the three accused persons are also charged with conspiracy to commit an offence, forgery, uttering false documents and obtaining six million US dollars (about 12bn/-) by false pretense.

They are alleged to have directly engaged themselves in a transaction involving six million US dollars by transferring, withdrawing and depositing money relating to that transaction in different bank accounts maintained by EGMA Limited at Stanbic Bank Tanzania Limited and KCB Bank Limited.

The prosecution told the court further that the accused persons ought to have known that the said money was the proceeds of a predicate offence, which is forgery.

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