Borders sealed off as police launch manhunt for Jubilee financier

By , K24 Digital
On Tue, 7 Dec, 2021 09:52 | 2 mins read
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Police officers attached to the Border Patrol Unit (BPU) have sealed off the country with the aim of arresting a billionaire who is wanted for evading tax.

On Monday, December 6, a Kenyan court issued a warrant of arrest against Mary Wambui Mungai who has been financing Jubilee Party.

K24 Digital has established that the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has deployed a multi-agency unit at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and all border points to track down the billionaire.

Wambui is accused of contempt of court after she failed to honor a court summon in a case where she is accused of Ksh2.2 billion tax evasion case.

In addition to that, her daughter, Purity Njoki Mungai, equally did not appear in court to take plea in the case that has now put her mother in trouble.

Police sources say that they received information that the billionaire was planning to flee Kenya.

Chief Magistrate Felix Mutinda Kombo, ordered the police to ensure that they track the duo down and arraign them in court.

“It is therefore ordered that officers ensure that they arrest the duo and arraign them in this court,” he said.

Currently, the two have been declared fugitives- in addition Magistrate Kombo has ordered the police to keep track of all vehicles and planes departing from the country.

The case against the billionaire who has in the past won lucrative tenders from the State which include supplying to the military and the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA).

It has been hectic to deal with the matter as efforts to arraign and have her take plea in court hit the wall as she went under as soon as the case kicked off.

In June this year, Wambui sent a message to the court where she said that she was in South Africa conducting business and she will present herself to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters along Kiambu Road.

On December 6, her lawyer appeared in court on her behalf and said that she was admitted at a hospital after she fell ill.

Asked to produce documents that would prove indeed Wambui was ailing, the lawyer failed to submit them.

Her two daughters, Njoki and another Everlyn Nyambura also distanced themselves from the woes following her mother saying that she had put them as director in her company without their knowledge.

"The second and third respondents (Nyambura and Njoki) had been included as minority shareholders and directors at the incorporation of the company by the first applicant (Wambui), their mother, without their consent, having been minors and in school," their attorney, Wakubengo Waningilo, argued.

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