The long awaited prosecution of Mr Balogun, who has been charged with embezzling around $100m from police funds, is in doubt.
Asked how long the prosecution service would take to decide on whether to charge those named in the police files now under review, he hedged.
Olympus today said it was unclear how long the prosecution might last or how large any potential fines may be because of the lack of precedents for such an SFO move of prosecuting companies rather than individuals.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Members of the political elite in Kenya, a nation where top leaders have long escaped prosecution for corruption and other crimes, could now face an international investigation into the violence that shook the country after disputed elections last year.
The goal was to track the guns to major weapons traffickers and drug cartels in order to bring cases against kingpins who had long eluded prosecution under the prevailing strategy of arresting low-level purchasers of guns who were suspected of buying them for others.
This long overdue prosecution exposes the striking, continuous, and deliberate refusal by the accountability departments within the agencies, policy makers, the media, and the courts, to focus their attention on what occurs inside Chicago Police interrogation rooms.
The relatively light sentence ended a long-running prosecution that forced Mr. Olmert from office.
The six-month-long, £20m prosecution was condemned yesterday by Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment, who said it had been brought by an "overzealous and remote officialdom".
"Did you see the number of sheriffs carting her in and out on a misdemeanor case?" Mark Geragos, a lawyer whose clients have included Mr. Jackson and Gary Condit, said of Ms. Lohan and her appearance this week in a long-running prosecution that began when she was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and cocaine in 2007.
