{"id":240567,"date":"2026-08-07T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-blocks-prosecution-of-co-op-bank-ceo-gideon-muriuki\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:24:59","slug":"kenya-high-court-blocks-prosecution-of-co-op-bank-ceo-gideon-muriuki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-blocks-prosecution-of-co-op-bank-ceo-gideon-muriuki\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Court Blocks Prosecution of Co-Op Bank CEO Gideon Muriuki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The High Court has temporarily stopped the prosecution of Co-operative Bank of Kenya and its Chief Executive Officer Dr Gideon Muriuki over the alleged Sh363.3 million fraud at First Assurance Investment Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Justice Gregory Mutai issued interim conservatory orders restraining the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from arresting, charging, presenting for plea or prosecuting Co-op Bank and Muriuki in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The orders also suspend&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070570.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has temporarily stopped the prosecution of Co-operative Bank of Kenya and its Chief Executive Officer Dr Gideon Muriuki over the alleged Sh363.3 million fraud at First Assurance Investment Company. Justice Gregory Mutai issued interim conservatory orders restraining the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) from arresting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7089,7415,7213,16190,6185,23075,6184,4688,430,55082,257,4545,254],"class_list":["post-240567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-blocks","tag-ceo","tag-coop","tag-court","tag-gideon","tag-high","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-muriuki","tag-news","tag-prosecution","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}