DPP inks deals with foreign prosecutors
Kenya has signed cooperation deals with foreign prosecutors to enhance the prosecution of transnational crimes including terrorism, money laundering and human trafficking.
The pacts will ensure the countries share information regarding the complex crimes and make extraditing suspects easy.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has said the deal envisions simplifying the diverse legal paradigms to enable tackling of the complex crimes, denying the criminals the safety of the technicalities that gives them cover to sustain their vices.
“The MoU will strengthen networking and cooperation in combatting trans- national organized crimes such as cyber crimes, corruption, money laundering, trafficking in drugs and persons, terrorism, and violent extremism,” he said.
The deals follow an international conference of prosecutors from 42 African countries hosted in January by DPP in Mombasa.
The latest to sign such deal is Morocco’s Attorney General and President of Public Prosecutions Moulay El Hassan Daki who signed the deal on Tuesday in Nairobi.
The DPP said his office had sealed similar cooperation pacts with Uganda and Somalia among other countries and was at a high-level talk to ink one with Tanzania. “Tanzania is next and these are fruits of the conference we had in Mombasa for the enforcement of law and reigning in transnational crimes,” he said.
