The Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji intends to appeal a decision by High Court judge Dora Chepkwony on May 19, 2022, to release a man who is wanted in the United States for money laundering.

Haji objected to the release of Abdulrahman Imran Juma on a Kshs1 million bond with a surety of a similar amount by the High Court after a lower court led by Chief Magistrate Wendy Micheni denied Imran bail due to the magnitude of his crimes and also because the fugitive is a flight risk.

"Having been dissatisfied with the High Court’s ruling, the prosecution intends to appeal against the court's decision to release the fugitive on bond terms pending the determination of the extradition proceedings," Haji said in a tweet on Friday, May 27.

Juma was arrested in December and he had been in custody since, as he is wanted by the Grand Jury for the United States District Court of the Central District of California for his role in a gang that conspires to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and aggravated identity theft.

He is facing up to 61 counts of the offences where he and his colleagues would target business people based in the US and Qatar and defraud them so that they could offer loans worth millions of dollars, and was looking at a long jail term once extradited to the USA.

When he was arrested, he was found in possession of 2 passports, one of which was undocumented, and was also going by several aliases in the schemes.

According to Haji, the case is still in the highlighting of submissions stage in both courts, and the High Court was too quick to set aside the earlier order by the Magistrate Court denying him bail especially due to the gravity of his accusations.