A police officer on Saturday is reported to have died under mysterious circumstances in Billionaire Humphrey Kariuki's plant.
The AP officer allegedly slipped and fell to his death while at the African Spirits Limited based in Thika where he was manning the factory.
The police have opened investigations into the death of their colleague.
Thika Sub-County Deputy Police Commander Bernard Ayoo was able to identify the deceased AP as Constable Samuel Njogu Mwaura, Nation reports.
Ayoo disclosed that Mwaura died after sliding from a spiral metal staircase within the factory.
He was later pronounced dead at Thika Level Five hospital where he had been rushed.
“At the moment we cannot tell the exact circumstances that led to his death. A postmortem shall help establish what exactly happened,” Ayoo maintained.
Another officer who viewed the late law enforcer before he was rushed to the hospital revealed he had sustained a cut at the back of his head.
The deceased's body was later taken to General Kago mortuary.
The business mogul whose factory the AP died, had earlier on been slapped with charges of evading to pay Ksh41 billion in taxes, through his businesses, Africa Spirits, and Wines of the World.
DPP Noordin Haji had ordered for his arrest, together with eight others involved in the tax evasion, after acquiring enough evidence to charge the persons.
The arrests were ordered on after Haji declared he had enough evidence to charge the persons.
“Therefore applying the provisions of the national prosecution policy and having independently reviewed the file, I’m satisfied that there is enough evidence and it is in the interest of the public to charge the following suspects,” Haji wrote in the statement.
Others to be prosecuted together with Kariuki are Stuart Gerald Herd, Perter Njenga Kuria, Robert Thinji Muriithi Geoffrey Kaaria Kinoti Mbombua.
Also on the list were Sethu Prabhu, Eric Mulwa Nzomba, Simon and Kepha Githu Gakure.
