ICC prosecutor links DP Ruto to bribery scheme even as Paul Gicheru defends self

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ICC prosecutor links DP Ruto to bribery scheme even as Paul Gicheru defends self

Prosecutor names 10 others as team behind witness tampering to aid Ruto. Gicheru says evidence investigators and witnesses had did not link him to said tampering.

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