The High Court has declined to grant the State orders to seize property worth Sh119.9 million, suspected to be proceeds of terrorism activities, from a high-ranking Somali diplomat in Kenya.

The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) sought to seize the house of Gabriel Cusman Moxamed, a Somali diplomat in Kenya, located along Eldama Ravine Road in Nairobi and valued at Sh110 million.

ARA argued that Moxamed bought the house in Nairobi using the proceeds from the sale of his family’s house worth Sh220m in Mogadishu to a suspected terrorist, Abdi Nasir Ali Mahamud.