Mamlaka ya Uganda yamkamata Waziri wa Zamani wa Kenya akitaka Kusafirisha Dhahabu ya Mamilioni Kuelekea Dubai

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Mahakama ya Kupambana na Rushwa iliyosimamiwa na Mheshimiwa Esther Asiimwe jana ilimweka Stephen Kipkyen Tarus, ambaye pia ni aliyekuwa Mbunge nchini Kenya, rumande katika gereza la Luzira kwa udanganyifu wa nyaraka za usafirishaji na kusababisha upotevu wa mapato kwa Serikali ya Uganda. Kipkyeny amewekwa rumande hadi tarehe 18 Januari 2024.

Kulingana na Stuart Ahebwa, mwendesha mashtaka wa URA, Kipkyeny ameshtakiwa kwa kughushi nyaraka za usafirishaji za dhahabu yenye uzito wa kilogramu 13 yenye thamani ya Dola za Marekani 30,000 (UGX 113,646,810).

Taarifa inaonyesha kuwa dhahabu hiyo ilikuwa ikielekea Dubai, ambapo mmoja wa wateja wa mtuhumiwa [Kipkyeny], Kostbar International, anapofanyia kazi. Kostbar ni kampuni inayounda na kutengeneza vito vya thamani kwa biashara pekee.

Ahebwa pia aliongeza kwamba kuna timu kubwa nyuma ya mpango huu wa kukwepa kodi na hadi sasa mtu mmoja tu amekamatwa.
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The Anti-corruption court presided over by Her Worship Esther Asiimwe yesterday remanded Tarus Stephen Kipkyen, also a former member of Parliament in Kenya to Luzira prison for falsification of export documents and causing revenue loss to the Government of Uganda. Kipkyeny was remanded until 18th January 2024.

According to Stuart Ahebwa, URA‘s prosecutor, Kipkyeny was charged with forgery of export documents for 13kgs of gold valued at USD. 30,000 (UGX113,646,810).

The information at hand indicates that the gold was destined for Dubai, where one of the suspect’s [Kipkyeny] clients, Kostbar International, is based. Kostbar is a company that designs and manufactures jewellery exclusively for the trade.

Ahebwa also added that there is a big team behind this tax evasion scheme and so far only one person has been netted.

“It is a group and now we have only one person. The issue of them forging documents that they are working with URA also makes matters worse and it is also the reason we have arraigned Kipkyenyi in court,” Ahebwa added.

Meanwhile, according to East African Community Customs Management Act (EACCMA) a person who makes or uses false documents upon conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding USD 10,000. This means that once Kipkyenyi is found guilty, he will be liable to these terms.

In URA, smuggling and fraud remain the top customs offences. For example, last year alone, URA recovered UGX132.77 billion through country-wide enforcement operations while UGX130.50 billion was recovered through court arbitration and UGX174.64 billion through Tax Investigations interventions.

Also, for those who are not familiar with Kenya’s politics, Stephen Tarus Kipkyeny served under President Mwai Kibaki’s administration as the Assistant Minister of Internal Security and as Kenya’s High Commissioner to Australia from 2009 to 2012.

Before his appointments under the Kibaki regime, the suspect had served as the Member of Parliament for Emgwen Constituency between 2003 and 2007.

Source: The Binocular

 

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[Kevin85ify]

As a Kenyan I will say let him be jailed. He attempted to defraud the Ugandan people , by not paying taxes. EAC need good infrastructure and that needs money, we can not have unscrupulous business people not paying their fair share of taxes and levies. Riding on the backs of honest citizens who have to fund the roads, railways and electricity that they use.