A court has declined to unfreeze the assets of Rwanda genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga in Kenya.
The Kenya anti-corruption court rejected Mr Kabuga’s son Nshimyumuremyi Donatien’s plea to allow his aged mother to access rent from the property in the capital, Nairobi, local media report.
The court affirmed similar orders issued by a lower court 15 years ago.
The case, filed in 2008, sought to have Mr Kabuga’s property forfeited and its proceeds used to compensate genocide victims and their families. At the time, Mr Kabuga was a fugitive.
Mr Kabuga’s wife, in her submissions filed before the court, had argued that the Kenyan government had no proof that the contested property was acquired through crime proceeds.
She also claimed that there was no proof that Mr Kabuga used the rent collected from the house to evade arrest.
Mr Kabuga, one of the key suspects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, was arrested in France in 2020 after evading capture for about 26 years.
He has been charged with several counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.