Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji says he is ready to begin the extradition case against the former Finance Minister Chris Okemo and former Kenya Power boss Samuel Gichuru.

This is after the Supreme court gave a green light for the prosecution of the duo in the case where Okemo and Gichuru are fighting against being shipped to Jersey Island to face the charges.

Okemo and Gichuru were influential officers in the KANU regime.

The DPP launched the case against Okemo and Gichuru in July 2011.

A court on Jersey Island issued a warrant arrest for Gichuru and Okemo in April 2011, but ten years later, the two have fought their extradition through a series of legal suites in Kenyan courts.

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The Jersey court found out that Okemo, then Finance minister, and Gichuru, then Kenya power boss had received Sh997 million in a bribery scheme and transferred the proceeds to secret accounts in Jersey.

The scheme was executed through Windward Trading Limited, the entity through which Gichuru received lucrative tenders.

Gichuru is said to have set up the firm in Jersey as an entity to receive payments as a consultant fee from firms that wanted Kenya power tenders.

Walbrook Trustees Limited were the administrators and the face of the company and would wire kickback received to Gichuru and later Okemo.

Only Sh526 million is said to have been recovered by the time of freezing the amounts by the Jersey authorities.

Sh444 million is to be repatriated back to Kenya after deducting court expenses.