Four Kenyans who were jailed for life in Kiir's office fraud case have been freed, reports

Kenyan businessmen Anthony Mwadime, Ravi Ramesh, Boniface Muriuki, Anthony Keya and 12 other officials from Office of the President and Central Bank had been sentenced to life imprisonment for allegedly conspiring to defraud the Office of the President of $14M.
The release of the four Kenyans was reportedly secured following talks between Presidents Uhuru 

 Kenyatta and Salva Kiir according to Kenyan media reports.

The four Kenyan were employees of Click Technologies, a technology retailer that sold electronic equipment including cameras to the State that was owned by John Agou, a former security officer in South Sudan’s presidency, and his wife Anyieth Chaat Paul.

The company would later be accused of swindling the Office of the President and other ministries out of millions of dollars by receiving payments for no deliveries made.
Mr. Agou and his employees were also accused of forging the presidential seal in an attempt to withdraw the funds from the Central Bank.

Appearing in a High Court in Juba, the 16 were charged with offences related to financial misappropriation and given life imprisonment sentences.
Families of the four Kenyans had been relentlessly lobbying their Ministry of Foreign Affairs to secure their release.

The families argued that the sentences were harsh and their kin were victims of business wars for lucrative government tenders.

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