Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Friday, unveiled new evidence, in the disappearance of Dutch Tycoon, Tob Cohen.
The shocking revelation has put the tycoon's wife Sarah on the spot.
DCI found out that, it is highly likely that Dutch billionaire's mobile phone did not leave Westlands in Nairobi county, on the day he disappeared, Nation reports.
This discovery of the last location of his phone has further complicated the puzzle of whether Cohen left Kenya, as initially claimed by his wife.
According to Police Inspector from the homicide unit of the DCI, Maxwell Otieno, preliminary investigations showed that Cohen may have been kidnapped.
“It’s highly probable that Cohen might have been kidnapped from his residence and taken by the respondent to an unknown place where the kidnap may have turned to murder,” argued Otieno.
“Preliminary investigations established that the respondent coached some witnesses to give false testimony on the movement of Cohen,” the inspector told the court.
Calls, text messages and financial transactions from Wairimu’s mobile phone are being analysed by detectives to ascertain if the people she communicated within the days leading to Cohen’s disappearance.
A YouTube video posted on August 10 by Wairimu, just 20 days after the tycoon's disappearance, is also part of the evidence being analysed.
In the video, Wairimu painted her husband as a violent man who abused alcohol and substances.
“Tob is not a young man. He is going to be 70 soon. He is a chain-smoker and that is slowing him down."
"And for a long time Tob has been abusing substances. That is why unknown to many, he had all this aggression and couldn’t handle situations,” she disclosed.
Wairimu’s lawyer, Philip Murgor, however, came to her defense stating that, his client posted the video in response to allegations leveled against her concerning her husband’s disappearance.
“My client was overwhelmed by all the stuff that was coming to her without giving her a right to reply. She decided to make her side of the story known,” Murgor claimed.
Wairimu is yet to be charged for the disappearance of her husband whom the police allege could be dead.
DCI was also on Friday allowed to detain Wairimu for three extra days until Monday, September 2, 2019, when a court in Kiambu will determine if the State can continue holding her for 14 days, as initially requested.
Sarah was arrested on August 28, 2019, and detained at Muthaiga Police Station, after she was picked from her Kitisuru home by DCI detectives.
Cohen, a former chief executive of Dutch conglomerate Phillips East Africa, vanished from his home between July 19 and 20 this year and has been missing for 40 days now.
The couple was reportedly involved in a messy divorce case and a fight over a multi-million-shilling property, before Cohen's disappearance.
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.
