KRA OFFICIALS IN CUSTODY AS DUBAI COMPANY IS IMPLICATED IN TAX EVASION SCANDAL IN GOLD EXPORT IN NAIROBI

KRA officials in custody as Dubai company is implicated in tax evasion scandal in gold export in Nairobi.

By Special Correspondent

Two Kenya Customs officials have been

arrested for interrogation by EACC

officials over their role in the

attempted tax evasion plan of over

300kg of gold believed to be from DRC

at the Jomo Kenyatta International

Airport in Nairobi.

At the centre of the scandal is a major

Dubai gold dealer Empress Bullion Gold

trading company and a number of

foreign nationals from Dubai, The UK

and The Democratic Republic of Congo.

The officials have been accused of

colluding with clearing and forwarding

agents and are suspected to have

received thousands of dollars to

process shipping documents without any

money going to the government.

The officials have been handed over to

the police to help unravel the

identities of all the other parties

involved.

This arrest comes in heels of an

announcement by KRA in March that it

was likely to miss it’s target for the

year ending June 30th.

In 2022, President William Ruto

challenged KRA to collect kshs 4

trillion and threatened to send top

management packing if they failed to

seal leaks in collection.

This has seen very tightened controls

by the tax masters and it’s expected

that with more than 1 million persons

added this year to the taxpayers

register the figures on taxes should

drastically change.