A businessman in Mombasa on Friday, September 6, 2019, was charged with failing to pay taxes amounting to Ksh1.87 Billion since 2013.
Abdi Gedi Amin, alias Abdi Ibrahim Ahmed, appeared before Mombasa Senior Resident Magistrate Vincent Adet and was charged with several charges in four different case files.
Amin only made a plea in one of the cases as his co-accused was not in court in the other cases.
According to the Daily Nation, Amin had two KRA PINs registered in two different names A005964732D under Abdi Gedi Amin and A002557439D under Abdi Ibrahim Ahmed.
It was also said that he used the two PINs interchangeably in bank account documents.
Between 2013 and 2017, the court heard the Amin had earned over Ksh1.7 billion but declared only Ksh6.2 million, therefore, avoiding to pay taxes worth Ksh787.4 million.
Daily nation further reported that Amin owns Gulf Skytop Ltd, registered under his wife, Rukia Ali Barsok but he is a signatory to the bank documents.
The firm between 2013 and 2015 was importing Palm oil in bulk and exported it to DRC and Sudan.
KRA noted that the quantity of imported palm oil varied with the quantity exported by 1.2 million kilogrammes and it suspected that the variation made its way into the local market without the payment of required taxes.
Coast Terminal East Africa Ltd, registered under PIN P051398900G and also allegedly owned by Amin under his alias Abdi Ibrahim Ahmed was also investigated.
KRA claimed that the company earned Ksh1.44 billion but declared only Ksh647.2 million.
He had been arrested in February 2015 together with two KRA staffers for allegedly bribing them with Ksh1 million in order to avoid taxes on sugar allegedly smuggled into the country.
Amin was released on a Ksh5 million bond and a surety of same amount or a cash bail of Ksh2 million
