The wife of a Dutch Tycoon was on Wednesday evening, arrested by DCI detectives.
Sarah Wairimu Kamotho, the wife of 71-year old Tob Cohen, was detained at Muthaiga Police Station, after she was picked from her Kitisuru home.
Reports by Daily Nation stated that Ms Kamotho was to face charges related to the disappearance of her husband, who has been missing since July 19, 2019.
Cohen, a former chief executive of Dutch conglomerate Phillips East Africa, vanished from his home between July 19 and 20 this year and has never been seen again.
The couple was reportedly involved in a messy divorce case and a fight over a multi-million-shilling property, before Cohen's disappearance.
The business mogul had also filed an assault case against his wife.
In two separate incidences, Ms. Kamotho contradicted her claims concerning her husband's whereabouts.
In the first incidence, she told Cohen’s friends that her husband, a celebrated golf tournaments organiser, had left for Thailand to seek treatment.
However, DCI established that there is no evidence from the State Department of Immigration that the missing tycoon left the country.
Earlier in the month, she told Nation that her husband had taken a break and flew out to Thailand for a rest.
Household staff at their high-security home, with CCTVs pointing on the driveway, however, disclosed that on the afternoon of his disappearance, the business mogul only left with a briefcase and was driven off by unknown people in a white car.
A letter from Sarah, dated July 18, just a day before Tob disappeared, also brought a new twist to the mystery.
“Tob has depression and a mental condition he won’t address for personal reasons and this has (been) causing a lot of problems.
“He has become impossible to live with, even though we try. The family has stepped aside due to the abusive and vindictive nature of his condition,” the letter claimed.
Wairimu explained that she wrote the letter to seek help from the Dutch Embassy but never got any response
The tycoon's wife was thus summoned by detectives to get her side of the story. A detective handling the case stated that Wairimu's letter and the other two, sent to Cohen’s lawyers, were important leads.
