The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chairman Isaack Hassan Tuesday appeared before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission over the Chickengate scandal.
This is the second time he is being grilled even after he denied any role in the scam. Hassan who had been in Malindi to oversee the just concluded by-election arrived at the commission offices at about 8.45am.
Hassan is the latest electoral official to be summoned for further grilling in new probe ahead of the submission of file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.
If he is charged in court, the move will have an impact on the elections in 2017.
Last week, the main suspect in the scam Trevor Oyombra, commissioner Yusuf Nzibo, former CEO James Oswago and commissioner Davis Chirchir and top procurement officials were grilled for hours.
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office handed the documents to the Attorney General’s office in January.
The dossier includes data that was used by British authorities to jail and fine directors of a printing firm Smith & Ouzman for paying out bribes codenamed chicken totaling Sh59 million to electoral and examination officials.
The data used to crack the case was retrieved from email exchanges between the printers and the Kenyan officials, shipping invoices and local purchase orders used in procurement to demonstrate their case.
Hassan has previously defended himself saying the British officials were convicted of crimes that were committed a year before IEBC was formed.
Since the matter came to light in 2014, Kenyan officials are stuck on the way forward as no one has so far been charged in court and some of those named there are still in office.
The development came after a London court ordered a British company accused and convicted of bribing Kenyan officials to win contracts to pay a Sh330 million fine.
This was after a court in London ruled that Smith and Ouzman should pay the fine after they were found guilty of bribing officials in Kenya and Mauritania with about Sh59 million to win contracts.
The officials had been jailed February 2015 over the bribery issue.
The London court fined the company of Sh197.5 million and Sh132 million to satisfy a confiscation order applied by the SFO and Sh3.8 million in cost to be paid in installments for five years.
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