NAIROBI A report by the international business consultancy Kroll has accused Daniel arap Moi, the former Kenyan President, of stealing up to £2 billion from his country during his 24-year reign, it emerged last night.

The 110-page report, commissioned in 2003 by the Kenyan Government after Mr Moi’s retirement, says that the former President, his family and associates amassed vast fortunes while he was in office, and invested much of it in Britain, the US, South Africa and Australia. Mr Moi’s two sons, Philip and Gideon, were said to be worth £384 million and £550 million. Some of the family wealth is said to be in British bank accounts.

Mr Moi, now 83, was replaced in 2002 by Mwai Kibaki, who had campaigned for cleaner government. His administration ordered the Kroll study, which was completed in 2004 but subsequently shelved when President Kibaki’s own Government became mired in corruption allegations, The Guardian reported.

Mr Moi remains a powerful political figure in Kenya and has recently backed Mr Kibaki for a second term as President.

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