Bluebird Aviation director and shareholder Yussuf Abdi Adan, has petitioned the Director of Criminal Investigations to institute criminal investigations against three money laundering suspects implicated in a multibillion scam.
In petition to the DCI, Adan accuses three Bluebird Aviation Chairman and CEO Col (Rtd) Hussein Ahmed Farah, General Manager Finance and Administration Hussein Unshur Mohamed as well as technical Director Mohamed Abdikadir Adan of engaging in massive fraud, tax evasion, embezzlement of company assets and money laundering.
The Directors are accused of using offshore companies including Amazon International FZC registered in Ajman UAE to launder funds belonging to Bluebird Aviation Ltd.
Yussuf, through lawyer Paul Muite claims the directors have irregularly converted company assets into shares in other companies including, SafariLink Aviation Ltd, 748 Air Services Kenya, 748 Air Services Barbados and 748 Air Service Dubai Multi-Commodity Centre (DMCC), Mount Hood Investments, Blue Eagle Developers among others.
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Yussuf has also urged the Kenya Airports Authority Managing Director Jonny Andersen to commence an internal probe against the said directors.
He alleges that his co-directors have been by-passing Airport security at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to transport cash stolen from Bluebird Aviation to offshore destinations.
The complaint, further states that: “The monies being transported amounts to huge sums of cash. This is also against the orders issued by the High Court vide a ruling by Honourable Justice Ogola on 18th May 2016.”
Yussuf Abdi Adan has also implicated National Bank of Kenya Chairman Mohamed Hassanwho he claims is an interested party in the matter.
Yussuf has filed a civil case at the Milimani Commercial Court seeking to recover more than US$1 billion (Kshs 100billion) embezzled and misappropriated from Bluebird Aviation in the last 26 years.
“I verily believe that my life and that of my family is at great risk and may be subject to harm with the sole intention of putting pressure on me and my family to withdraw the ongoing dispute in Court,” Yussuf Abdi Adan said in a sworn statement to the DCI.
Yussuf further states that the said directors each holding a 25% stake in the firm continue to enjoy state security yet have conspired to exclude him from the aviation firm operations.
With a fleet of more than 20 aircrafts, Bluebird Aviation Ltd, is licensed to operate scheduled, non-scheduled and ad-hoc air charter services, medical evacuation and relief services within the East and Central African region with special emphasis on Eastern Africa.
