A billionaire MP has ‘robbed’ Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Ksh473.8 million for five years through a tax evasion scheme.
Shockingly! Lugari MP Ayub Savula has been filing nil returns despite receiving huge payouts.
According to KRA court documents, , through his company Sunday Publishers Limited, earned Ksh1 Billion in five years from state agencies but never remitted taxes.
The cash, which was received between 2013 and 2017, was gotten from the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), Ministry of Energy, Nairobi County Government, Migori County, Mombasa County and the National Lands Commission (NLC).
Savula, who co-owns the company with his wife, then moved to court to prevent their arrests by DCI.
In court filings, the duo sought “a declaration that the respondents impending and imminent arrest, detention and prosecution of the applicants amount to a gross violation of the petitioners’ fundamental rights and freedoms under the Constitution and under the relevant tax laws.”
This was, however, not the first time the MP and his two wives found themselves at loggerheads with the taxman or the government in general.
The MP, together with his wives; Kemboi and Melody Gatwiri Ringera, had been taken into police custody over allegations of being involved in the GAA graft.
On October 30, 2018, Savula was subsequently arraigned in court where he denied the charges and was freed on a KShs1 Million cash bail or Kshs2 Million bond.