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Businessman Humprey Kariuki in the dock at Milimani Law Courts. [George Njunge, Standard]
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji has consolidated two tax-related cases against businessman Humphrey Kariuki and seven others.
In the consolidated case, the DPP has filed only 11 charges instead of the 19 he had proffered in the two previous cases.
At the same time, the DPP has delegated his powers to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to prosecute the case.
Defence lawyers however raised concern after the prosecution failed to obey a court order that directed the handing over of the Thika-based liquor factory to its owners.
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Two people have been arrested in Githunguri, Kiambu County, in connection with the murder of a 72-year-old woman.
The two, a man and his daughter, are being questioned by detectives seeking to unravel the killing of Beatrice Wangari over a suspected land dispute.
Wangari was killed in August last year. The detectives have succeeded in retrieving an iron bar from a pit latrine suspected to have been used to kill Wangari.
The detectives also found clothes thought to have been worn by Wangari on the fateful day inside the latrine.
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Also retrieved from the toilet was a pair of shoes suspected to belong to Wangari.
DPP appeals tycoon’s tax evasion acquittal
Monday December 14 2020
By JOSEPH WANGUI
The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Noordin Haji has filed an appeal against the decision of a magistrate court to acquit alcohol tycoon Humphrey Kariuki and five others from criminal charges of tax evasion and being in possession of un-customed Sh7.4 million ethanol.
The DPP has termed the decision made by Milimani senior principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot last week as unfair and the acquittal was without any factual or legal basis.
He wants the High Court to quash or set aside the magistrate s ruling which also acquitted Mr Kariuki’s co-accused Peter Njenga, Robert Thinji, Eric Mulwa, Kepha Gakure, African Spirits and Wow Beverages.