Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti on Thursday, October 17, moved to respond to a lawsuit filed against him by Sarah Cohen, the widow of slain Dutch billionaire, Tob Cohen.
K24 reported that Kinoti hired city lawyer Donald Kipkorir to represent him in a civil case in which a contempt action against him filed by Sarah.
According to Kinoti who has been out of the country, the state was yet to receive the application of contempt against him.
The DCI boss, therefore, addressed a letter to Wairimu’s lawyer, Philip Murgor and State prosecutor, Catherine Mwaniki, saying he “read on social media that Wairimu had sued him for contempt of court”.
Kinoti asked Murgor to urgently serve his legal representative, Kipkorir, with the application.
This comes only two days after Sarah filed to have Kinoti, Nation’s special projects boss and senior journalist, John Kamau, and State prosecutor Juma Victor Owiti jailed for six months for contempt of court.
The widow accused them of going against a court order issued by Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit on September 16, which barred the DCI, DPP and the media from publishing content involving investigations into Tob Cohen’s death.
Kinoti(2nd accused) was accused of “prosecuting” the case against in the media her on September 13, after discovering Cohen’s body in his Kitisuru home.
"On September 13], the 1st and 2nd respondents, knowing well that there was no iota of evidence directly or indirectly linking the applicant to the murder of her husband, continued to prosecute their trumped-up case against the applicant through the print and electronic media by going into a frenzy of: malicious and unsubstantiated allegations; unsolicited commentaries; uninformed opinions; and unverified theories," Sarah argues in the suit documents.
She further accused Kinoti of holding on to her matrimonial property with the aim of “handing it over on a silver platter to interested parties, including Cohen's siblings as confirmed in an article published by a local newspaper in September 16.
The article had stated that Cohen left the Ksh400M will to his sister Gabrielle Van Straten.
