A warrant of arrest has been issued against a brother to businessman Samuel Mburu over allegations of defrauding the government of Sh64 million in taxes. Mburu was in court yesterday alongside eleven others but his brother George Hillary Kamau was not present. Mburu and Kamau run Landmark Freight Services Limited which has been accused of concealing imported goods in order to evade tax. Read: Ruto associate arrested over tax evasionFormer Kenya Bureau of Standards CEO Charles Ongwae is implicated in the case but did not turn up in court. The four allegedly did so by imposing a penalty of 0.5 per cent instead of 15 per cent of the total custom value on imported goods without a certificate of conformity.

Source: The Star December 31, 2018 21:22 UTC