A vehicle belonging to former governor Evans Kidero is being detained by the police over alleged tax evasion. Detectives also suspect the Mercedes Benz 500E has a fake registration number plate as they try to establish whether the car was smuggled into the country.
according to the police, the vehicle was imported without paying import duty and was operating illegally in the country.
A similar car owned by Dr Kidero’s close friend has also been confiscated and detained at Parklands Police Station. The two vehicles were seized soon after Kidero was arrested by anti-corruption detectives over allegations of abuse of office, money laundering, bribery, conflict of interest and failure to protect public property.
The former governor has recorded a statement at the Parklands Police Station.
He risks being slapped with a heavy fine if it is found out that the Benz was smuggled into the country.
The anti-corruption commission conducted investigations into allegations of abuse of office, money laundering and bribery against Dr Kidero and the others.
Other allegations are conflict of interest and failure to protect public property.
Pursuant to Section 35 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, the commission then submitted a report to the DPP on the results of the investigations through a letter on July 13.
Upon review of the report and recommendations, the office of the DPP confirmed it concurred with EACC that there is sufficient evidence to charge the suspects with several offences of corruption and economic crimes.
The Financial Reporting Centre wrote to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to investigate Dr Kidero, the nine former officials, directors of four pharmaceutical companies and bank officials.
They are accused of withdrawing the money from a number of county collection accounts between April 2014 and August 2017 through structured cash withdrawals.