Keroche Breweries owner, Tabitha Karanja, opened up on her humiliating experience at the hands of detectives, following her arrest alongside her husband, Joseph Karanja, on August 22, 2019.
Reports by the Nation revealed that the business mogul was taken through three hours of intense interrogation carried out by unidentified officers.
"I had been informed earlier on that the questioning would only take five minutes," she narrated.
Ms Karanja went on to claim that the entire process was being controlled and managed by someone or persons who were running an unofficial operation within the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
“It was a bizarre and shameful exercise that only ended when I made a decision to disengage from what was obviously an unofficial kangaroo court convened to intimidate and embarrass me,” the embattled Keroche CEO divulged.
Reports also revealed that she had willingly presented herself to the officers to avoid the arrest and consequent questioning of her children.
The letters of summon from the tax agency allegedly contained not only the names of the power couple but those of their four children, John Muigai, Edward Mwangi, Annalisa Wanjiru and Patricia Wangari Muigai.
She has since issued a statement slamming Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji, for ordering her arrest over a Ksh14.5 billion tax fraud investigation.
In a rejoinder, KRA stood by its actions against Keroche Breweries Limited, maintaining that the war against tax evasion was not maliciously targeting specific businesses individuals.
The charges stated that the brewery company had engaged in fraud by posting incorrect statements on excise duty by reducing the company’s tax liability, between February 20, 2015, and July 20, 2019.
