A former Treasury employee Elvin Leware Macager has sent government agencies into a frenzy after it was established that he managed to make over Ksh600 million from the Treasury before his resignation in 2018.
Reports from the Standard on Monday, December 16, indicate that Leware, whose salary was a paltry Ksh16,000 a month, managed to amass millions in his tenure as a junior employee at the Treasury between 2010 and 2016.
Despite his paltry salary, Macager is reported to have conducted business with the government multiple times, in effect making millions for which he never paid tax.
He is reported to have received first received Ksh27.8 million for consultancy services he provided for the construction of an abattoir under a company linked to him, that was registered as Beachetts services in September 2014.
Between April and December 2014, it is reported that Ksh103 million was wired to his bank accounts for consultancy on veterinary and construction services, of which Ksh27 million was not captured in the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS).
In October 2014, Macager struck again, trading under a company identified as Ndegwil Insights and Services, where he was paid Ksh42.5 million for consultancy services on resource utilization.
He went ahead to trade under another company, identified as the Endlevel services where he provided consultancy services on youth employment at KSh38 million before he received another Ksh43 million for his work on poverty mitigation under Vilekat Information in November 2014.
Over the next two years, Macager made hundreds of millions providing consultancy services through new companies, to an extent of receiving Ksh24 million from the state department of sports in June 2016 during the controversial Rio Olympics spending.
Reports from the Standard indicate that despite his staggering fortune, Macager only owns a block of apartments, several luxury vehicles and has managed to tour Dubai.
This report indicated that he was worth only Ksh100 million, despite having amassed close to Ksh700 million, a matter that has raised questions as to who was the recipient of the remaining amount of cash.
The Kenya Revenue Authority has jumped onto the case and slapped Macager with a Ksh313 million demand in tax in the form of VAT (Ksh108 million), Income tax (Ksh199 million) PAYE (Ksh5 million) and capital gains worth Ksh700,000 for a piece of land that he sold in Ruiru in 2016 at a cost of Ksh14 million.
