I have come across this from one popular Kenyan Forums that breaks local news. Can someone confirm""
Kenyan security officials together with the FBI have arrested and handed over Walter Barasa to the ICC 20 minutes ago. The ICC requested Mr Barasa' arrest last year. He denies witness interference in the ICC trial of Deputy President William Ruto.
Mr Ruto denies charges of organising ethnic violence after Kenya's disputed 2007 election.
In court papers made public last October, ICC prosecutors said Mr Barasa had offered bribes amounting to $16,200 (£10,000).
Correspondents say that he may soon be taken into custody.
If found guilty he could face up to five years in jail.
Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 were forced from their homes following the presidential election on 27 December 2007.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is also due to stand trial on similar charges - he too denies the allegations.
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto were on opposite sides in the 2007 election, but formed an alliance to win power in elections a year ago.
The plane taking Barasa to the ICC has already left as he heads to the hague based court to prove his innocence. Sources close to security officials claim that the move was arrived on by senior government officials to show Kenya's co-operation with the ICC amid protests by Fatou Bensouda that Kenya is not co-operating with them.
We wish Mr Walter Barasa well as he tries to prove his innocence .
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