KQ suspends staff, set for criminal proceedings after audit report

Kenya Airways says it has suspended and will initiate criminal proceedings against members of staff involved in fleecing the airline, a situation that played a role in the 25 billion shilling loss in its full year results for 2015.

The airline has announced that it has received the preliminary results of a forensic audit which reviewed the operations, systems and internal controls of the airline over the past five years in order to identify where the leakages were stemming from.

The audit is the airlines first attempt at finding out just how the airline’s underbelly was left exposed and is likely to shake the airline’s core.

Sources privy to the information intimate that at least six people have been found culpable; most of them within the airline’s finance department.  The tightly guarded document may the centre of a board meeting tomorrow, which our sources say could be followed by the announcement of disciplinary action, including suspension and criminal proceedings.

Members of the pilots association (KALPA), who spoke to Citizen TV anonymously, however, say the airline made a similar announcement to them before the pilots’ strike at the end of April, and added that the association  and were not aware of  any suspension or disciplinary action undertaken in recent days by the airline on members of staff.

The airline has declined to comment further on the matter, saying the internal communications were yet to be done, by the time we went to press.

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