The High Court has frozen accounts belonging to two government employees over corruption allegations.

High Court Judge Justice Alnasir Visram also barred the two from selling, leasing or transferring land or other property, which the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission suspects were obtained illegally.

The order, issued on Friday, arose out of an application by the graft watchdog.

In the first case, Mr Stanley Muombo Amuti, the financial controller with the National Water Conservation and Pipeline Corporation, is accused of allegedly acquired property worth millions of shillings through corrupt means.

The commission's investigators say Mr Amuti, whose monthly net salary is Sh180,031, deposited into his various bank accounts Sh140 million excluding his salary.

Also, during September last year and June this year, Mr Amuti withdrew Sh85 million, to acquire and develop land and his other properties worth Sh56 million.

A search warrant for Mr Amuti's home and office revealed huge sums of money and documents of property including houses, vehicles and land.

The graft watchdog wants him forced to pay the Government an "amount equivalent to the value of the unexplained assets and in alternative, his property be auctioned and the money in his various accounts be fortified by the Government."

In the second case, Mr Patrick Ochieno Abachi, an Agriculture ministry employee, is accused of acquiring property valued at about Sh80 million. He is said to have registered the properties in the names of his family members and close associates.

The official, says the watchdog, had amassed a lot of property, which is "disproportionate to the emoluments he is expected to have earned as a public officer."

Mr Abachi, is the ministry's chief accountant and earns a gross salary of Sh53,900 per month.

The official is accused of not declaring his wealth and failing to disclose all his properties or explain the source of the large amount of money in his bank accounts.