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	Heads to roll over Goldenberg scandal
		In one facet alone, some Sh13.5 billion ($180 million) was shelled out to Goldenberg International from the Central Bank of Kenya, purportedly to purchase the accruing foreign exchange.
		With all the negative impact it had, the Scandal has also shaped the fiscal and monetary sectors for the good.
		Five banks involved in the scandalous CBK overdraft saga of the Goldenberg era were closed after 1993.
	www.newsfromafrica.org /newsfromafrica/articles/art_1278.html (1062 words)

	The Goldberg Conspiracy, The Game of Paper Gold, Money and Power - ISS Paper No 117, September 2005
		Goldenberg’s roots are traced to August 1990, when a firm called Goldenberg International Limited was registered by the Registrar of Companies, the Kenyan company registry which is under the auspices of the Attorney General.
		Goldenberg’s transactions expanded exponentially and by early 1992, the company was licensed to open a commercial bank in the name of Exchange Bank, presumably to overcome the difficulties it was experiencing at other banks.
		Goldenberg was a high level conspiracy by senior officials of the Moi administration in Kenya, together with local and international wheeler dealers, who capitalised on the government’s desperation for foreign exchange and the greed of the administration’s cronies.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/papers/117/Paper117.htm (10315 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Q&A: Kenya's Goldenberg affair
		It is alleged that Goldenberg colluded with officials to claim money for the re-export of gold and diamonds that had come into Kenya from third countries.
		He names Goldenberg International and one of its directors, Kamlesh Pattni, among those charged with fraud and felony offences in connection with the theft of that sum.
		A report by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International says the Goldenberg scandal was the main factor in the near-collapse of the Kenyan economy, followed by years of recession and slow growth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4808618.stm (622 words)

	Guardian \| Charges in Kenya corruption scandal
		The "Goldenberg" scandal was made public 14 years ago and cost Kenyan taxpayers £400m, but no one has been found guilty and no politician has faced charges.
		At a time when Kenya faces a severe drought, the scandal is a reminder of the sleaze and economic stagnation of the Moi years.
		The charges over Goldenberg, a scandal which epitomised the corruption of the Moi government, come at a time when the new government is reeling from its own corruption scandal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329435198-111242,00.html (502 words)

	Money laundering Patterns in Kenya - Profiling Money Laundering in Eastern and Southern Africa - Monograph No 90 ...
		The Goldenberg scandal is a series of financial scams involving high-ranking state officials, which, together, led to an estimated loss of US$500 million by the government of Kenya.
		Goldenberg, naturally, claimed to be an exporter, and was paid Sh185,816,800 as pre-shipment finance for the gold and diamonds to be traded.
		The Goldenberg scandal, as shown above, was in fact not one scandal but a series of financial scams that were distinct and separate from one another.
	www.iss.co.za /pubs/Monographs/No90/Chap5.html (10359 words)

	Canada National News - The Brooks Bulletin
		Goldenberg is supporting longtime friend Bob Rae in the current leadership contest, although he also has praise in his book for another contender, Stephane Dion, Chretien's onetime unity minister.
		Goldenberg writes that Chretien never trusted Martin's instincts on Quebec and never forgave him for the nasty tone of their rivalry over the Meech Lake constitutional accord during the 1990 leadership contest.
		Goldenberg says Martin should simply have handed the file over the RCMP and allowed the Mounties to prosecute wrongdoers after Auditor General Sheila Fraser revealed that the sponsorship program, aimed at bolstering the federal presence in Quebec after the 1995 independence referendum, was riddled with corruption.
	www.brooksbulletin.com /news/national_news.asp?itemid=56849 (927 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		Saitoti filed a suit in court seeking to have his name removed from a report of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry, which was investigating the scandal that took place in the early 1990s.
		Established in 2003, the Goldenberg Commission of inquiry, led by Justice Samuel Bosire, handed over the report to the government early this year, after which Saitoti went to court.
		The Goldenberg scandal falls among the massive corruption cases that have put President Mwai Kibaki under pressure to honour his pledge of fighting graft.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=34225 (674 words)

	Five indicted over Goldenberg graft scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Those to be charged with conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to commit a felony include former director of intelligence James Kanyotu; former governor of the central bank Eric Kotut and his deputy, Eliphaz Riungu; and former permanent secretary in the finance ministry Wilfred Koinange, Attorney General Amos Wako said on Wednesday.
		Goldenberg International Ltd allegedly colluded with government officials to claim money from the central bank for the fictitious export of gold and diamonds that reportedly came into Kenya from other countries.
		The scandal occurred after the former Kenyan government set up an export compensation scheme, which involved paying incentives to Goldenberg to promote exports and so encourage foreign exchange earnings.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=52251 (448 words)

	A Scandal That Could Topple Kenya's Shaky Democracy - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States
		The outcome of the scandal, in which the public purse was defrauded of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars, will determine whether the Moi government sets Kenya on a solid democratic path.
		Since 1992, when the scandal first became public, the government has manipulated the legal system and employed extrajudicial and political pressures to block the investigation and punishment of those responsible.
		The Goldenberg scandal, and the inability of the Kenyan legal system to vindicate the rule of law against Moi and his ruling clique speaks volumes about the stillbirth of democracy and economic reforms in Kenya.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/corrupt/kenya.htm (863 words)

	Kenya Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Some of the principal suspects of the Goldenberg scandal are in the current government.
		Both the Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals are two monsters whose tentacles have a tight grip on those in the current and previous governments.
		It is for this messy state of affairs that the government is not in a hurry to prosecute the Goldenberg culprits recommended by Justice Samuel Bosire.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /12feb06/editorials/comm2.html (821 words)

	CORRUPTION: KENYA GRAPPLES WITH TWO MAJOR SCANDALS
		It was a year of spirited debate about graft, and hearings into corruption scandals - a year that saw two multi-million-dollar government contracts come under investigation after it was revealed that proper tendering processes had not been followed by the departments concerned.
		One of Kibaki's first actions upon succeeding Moi in 2002 was to appoint a commission to investigate the scandal, which had prompted the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to suspend aid to Kenya.
		The scandal was exposed in March this year and I do not think it should take this long for the government to give the public a report on the matter," says Mwalimu Mati, deputy executive director of TI-Kenya.
	www.exodusnews.com /worldnews/world047.htm (1114 words)

	Headlines \| Does this mark the end of Goldenberg? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He was dramatically cleared of any wrongdoing in the multi-billion shilling scandal that has hang around his neck like an albatross for 15 years.
		The Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry had termed the 15 per cent ex-gratia payments illegal, saying it could not be cured by Parliament’s approval of the expenditure as a Customs refund.
		The lawyers argued that the principle aspect of the Goldenberg affair that related to Saitoti was the decision to pay export compensation to Goldenberg, the company at the centre of the scam.
	www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143956157 (1282 words)

	Goldenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the Goldenberg scandal, named after Goldenberg International, the company at the heart of the scandal (named after [[]])
		Morris Goldenberg, the founder of the "Brooks Sports, Inc. "
		"Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" (Samuel Goldenberg et Schmuyle), a movement from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, based on two unnamed drawings by Viktor Hartmann
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goldenberg (165 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Kenya moves on corruption scandal
		In what he called a "new phase in the war against corruption," the president instructed government lawyers to bring charges against those implicated in the so-called "Goldenberg scandal" that predates his three-year-old government.
		As he deals with charges of rampant corruption in his own administration, Kibaki said those responsible for Goldenberg, which cost the country more than half a billion dollars in the 1990s, would be held to account.
		A report on the scandal, made public on Thursday, says state coffers were raided of at least $573.6-million (474.4-million) through manipulation of a credit scheme for fake exports of gold and diamonds.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/890055.htm (653 words)

	allAfrica.com: Kenya: The Dangerous Political Mutation of Pattni (Page 1 of 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He said the officials told him that his perseverance in the face of troubles with the government over Goldenberg, and a murder case he was charged with, reminded them of the stoic way their founder chairman, the late Prof Ng'ang'a, stood up to the Moi regime.
		Goldenberg was a political scandal in which the government reportedly subsidised exports of gold, during the 1990s, by paying Goldenberg International Limited 35 per cent more than their foreign currency earnings.
		The scandal involved corruption at the highest levels of the Kanu government of former President Moi.
	allafrica.com /stories/200612110511.html (944 words)

	Kenyan corruption scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The corruption scandals dogging Kenya claimed two more scalps this week, with the resignation of Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi and his education counterpart, George Saitoti.
		The president began his term by instituting a commission of enquiry into Goldenberg International, which was involved in the manipulation of an export compensation scheme set up to earn Kenya foreign exchange.
		He and 19 others implicated in the Goldenberg scandal have been ordered to remain in Kenya as investigations into this matter continue.
	www.pressureworks.org /frontline/news/160206_kenya.html (869 words)

	Report on graft scandal made public (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Goldenberg scandal, which took place when Daniel arap Moi was president of Kenya, was a scam in which the government subsidised exports of gold and diamonds, paying exporters huge percentages over their foreign currency earnings.
		The release of the Goldenberg report comes in the wake of fresh revelations by John Githongo, former ethics and governance permanent secretary, on the so called "Anglo-Leasing" scandal, in which the government commissioned an alleged non-existent company to print passports with improved security features and build a modern forensic laboratory for the police.
		In a BBC broadcast on Wednesday, Githongo played a recording of what he claimed was a conversation he had with Murungi in May 2004, in which the minister urged him to go slow on his inquiries.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=51666 (572 words)

	afrika.no - Kenya: Government pays only lip service to the War on Corruption
		The scandal sparked fury from western envoys, including former British ambassador to Kenya, Edward clay, who noted that corruption had cost the country an estimated 192 million dollars in the first 18 months of the Kibaki regime.
		It is still awaiting the release of a report of the Goldenberg Commission of inquiry appointed early 2003 to investigate the scandal.
		The Goldenberg scandal occurred in the early 1990s during the regime of former president Daniel arap Moi.
	www.afrika.no /Detailed/11137.html (1115 words)

	Kenya's ex-VP off the hook: Africa: News: News24
		Nairobi - A former Kenyan vice-president escaped prosecution on the country's biggest corruption scandal on Monday, when a court ruled he could not be charged in the $1bn (about R6.63bn) Goldenberg affair.
		The Goldenberg inquiry, commissioned by Kibaki, said that as finance minister under former President Daniel arap Moi, Saitoti approved millions of dollars in payments to the mastermind behind the scam, businessman Kamlesh Pattni.
		Six men, including a former central bank governor, have been charged on the Goldenberg case, in which state funds were looted through bogus diamond and gold exports.
	www.news24.com /News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1976158,00.html (450 words)

	Moi Denies Role in Banking Scam
		Recently two civil servants told a commission investigating the scandal that he had ordered payments worth $76m to Goldenberg International.
		The Goldenberg scandal cost Kenya the equivalent of more than 10% of the country's annual GDP.
		Several of the players involved, including Goldenberg owner Kamlesh Pattni and several government officials, have been prosecuted but never convicted.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2004/04/02-04-04/Moi.htm (178 words)

	globalinfo.org - Aug 3, KENYA (#45306)
		Handing down its landmark ruling Aug. 2, Kenya's High Court said Saitoti should not be charged in connection with the Goldenberg scandal, the country's biggest financial fraud.
		Saitoti filed suit seeking to have his name removed from a report of the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry, which was investigating the scandal that took place in the early 1990s.
		The Goldenberg scandal falls among the massive corruption cases that have put President Mwai Kibaki under pressure to honor his pledge of fighting graft.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=45306 (685 words)

	Anti-Corruption Group Announces Eight Integrity Award Finalists - US Department of State
		The Goldenberg scandal defrauded Kenyan taxpayers between 1990 and 1993 and is the largest known financial scandal in Kenya's history.
		David Munyakei and Constable Naftali Lang'at, declined to subvert rules and abet corruption relating to the Goldenberg scandal that defrauded Kenyan taxpayers of billions of Kenyan shillings through alleged exports of gold and diamonds between 1990 and 1993.
		The police officer told the commission inquiring into the Goldenberg Affair that upon the impounding of the gold, one of the suspects, Kamlesh Pattni, who turned out to be a director of Goldenberg International, made a telephone call to the then Director of the CID (Criminal Investigations Department).
	usinfo.state.gov /ei/Archive/2004/Jul/20-41093.html (1686 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A report by an independent commission on Kenya's biggest corruption scandal the "Goldenberg" affair named Saitoti and urged Attorney General Amos Wako to consider whether he should face criminal charges for his role in the scandal.
		Saitoti was finance minister during the billion-dollar scandal in which public funds were stolen in a bogus gold and diamond export scheme.
		Murungi's name has featured prominently in another scandal, the so-called "Anglo Leasing" scam, in which he has been accused of putting pressure on former anti-corruption tsar John Githongo to go slow on his investigations.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_86156.php?show=media (286 words)

	Kenya Times Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The government’s declaration to seize proceeds acquired through Goldenberg is likely to face a major hurdle as the country lacks any legislation dealing with the passing of criminal money around in attempts to disguise its provenance, popularly referred to as money laundering.
		Wako, who has been accused of giving the Goldenberg export compensation project a legal basis, asked the team appointed to consult on an ongoing basis with the specialised prosecution unit while doing its work.
		Saitoti, skipped a meeting called by the President to discuss the Goldenberg scandal just before the President ordered for the release of the report.
	www.timesnews.co.ke /11feb06/nwsstory/news2.html (824 words)

	IFEX ::
		Gachoka said that he was ready to argue out the contempt case against him but he could not take the threats lightly, considering the immense influence of those behind the Goldenberg scandal.
		The Goldenberg company was set up by Kamlesh Pattni and dealt in the business of exporting non-existent gemstones.
		Gachoka claimed (after his flight from Kenya) that he had evidence that some top government officials were involved in the Goldenberg scandal.
	www.ifex.org /es/content/view/full/7561 (401 words)

	Human Rights House Old problem of graft set to dog 2007
		The resignation of David Mwiraria as finance minister and Kiraitu Murungi as minister of justice came amidst public pressure for the men to step down to allow for investigations of their alleged roles in the Anglo Leasing scam.
		The Goldenberg scandal took place in the early 1990s while Daniel arap Moi was in power.
		The Anglo Leasing scandal was unearthed in 2004, and concerned dubious, multi-million-dollar contracts for supplying Kenya with a system to produce tamper-proof passports, and for building police forensic laboratories.
	www.humanrightshouse.org /dllvis5.asp?id=5004 (841 words)

	Kenya - Corruption - Goldenberg - Worldpress.org
		It was with this in mind that President Mwai Kibaki appointed the Goldenberg Commission of Inquiry on Feb. 24 this year.
		The commission was charged with fully investigating the Goldenberg export compensation scandal, which cost Kenya billions of shillings in the early 1990s.
		Claiming that his company, Goldenberg International, was processing gold and diamonds for export, Pattni was able to manipulate loopholes in the system with the help of government officials.
	www.worldpress.org /Africa/1499.cfm (614 words)

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