The Directorate of Criminal Investigations is probing the mysterious death of a police officer who is alleged to have died at Africa Spirits Limited owned by businessman Humphrey Kariuki.
According to footage seen by Kenyans.co.ke, the court, alongside detectives from DCI conducted a visit into the factory in Thika on Friday, July 2020 and were accompanied by the prosecution and defence lawyers.
“We also made another allegation that there has actually been a death that occurred at this place. It was never disclosed,” one of the prosecution lawyers stated after the visit.
"Now we have left a team of detectives and experts of the homicide department and they are trying to find out what could have happened the death, whether its was murder or under what circumstances the death occurred,” he added.
The prosecution also alleged that there was interference with the crime scene since the factory was closed to allow investigation into claims of tax evasion.
The gate had been welded shut and the visiting team had to find a way to cut it open.
On entering the facility, the team were greeted by signs of vandalism where electrical equipment had been dismantled, as well as CCTVs and computer servers.
The company’s safes had also been broken into and its contents emptied.
The prosecution team has also raised concern over missing ethanol worth Ksh2 billion.
“It doesn’t look like a place that was left on a normal day of work. We have also found vandalism and are not sure it is consistent with an ordinary office,” the state prosecutor observed.
Defence lawyers Cecil Miller and Kioko Kilukumi, argued that they had not been supplied with an inventory, to help determine if the scene had been tampered with.
Kariuki is currently out on a cash bail of Ksh11 million with an alternative bond of Ksh22 million.
