Kenyan detectives are reportedly dumbfounded by investigations into the mysterious disappearance of Dutch millionaire, Tob Cohen, who was entangled in a messy divorce and assault case with his estranged wife, Sarah Wairimu Kamotho.
Cohen, a former CEO of Dutch conglomerate Phillips East Africa, went missing between July 19 and 20 this year and has never been seen again.
According to his wife, as reported by Nation, Cohen had taken a break to travel to Thailand to seek medical treatment and wanted to be away from lawyers, who were pushing him for money.
However, detectives have claimed that there was no evidence from the immigration department that the missing tycoon left the country.
Furthermore, detectives cannot comprehend how shortly before his disappearance, two letters, dated July 20, 2019, that purported to withdraw both the divorce and assault case were sent to Cohen’s lawyers, Ms Judy Thongori for the divorce case and Dunstan Omari in the assault case.
Detectives are also scrutinising a letter written to the Dutch Embassy, in Nairobi and dated Thursday, July 18, a day before he disappeared, and signed by the wife alleging that, “Tob has depression and mental condition he won’t address for personal reasons and this has (been) and is causing a lot of problems.”
While police state that there is no evidence to suggest that someone killed the well-known golfer, they also claim that there is no evidence to suggest someone did not.
The matter is being handled by the homicide section of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and has drawn interest from the Dutch Embassy in Nairobi, where the disappearance was first reported by Cohen’s Amsterdam-based sister Gabrie van Straten.
Detectives have now summoned Wairimu to get her side of the story.
A detective handling the case told the Nation, “this letter and the two letters sent to Mr Cohen’s lawyers are important leads.”
