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The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) began investigating how an employee of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) accumulated 650 million shillings
Joseph Chege Gikonyo, on Sh119, 617 monthly salary at the tax agency, the accumulated wealth is worth 650 million over a period of 18 years, according to The Standard .
The detectives of the EACC interviewed the little-known multimillionaire on the source of his wealth. It is said that Gikonyo started working at KRA in 1998 as a junior tax collector with an initial monthly salary of 24,369, before going up to a manager in Eldoret.
A preliminary investigation by the EACC shows that Gikonyo earns a net salary of 119,917 shillings a month as a manager and that his declared badets are estimated at 61 million shillings.
On July 20, EACC filed a petition with the High Court to obtain the freezing of Gikonyo's bank accounts pending the completion of the investigation into his mysterious fortune.
His accumulated earnings in 20 years amount to 45 million shillings. he obtained the balance of his wealth of 615 million shillings.
High Court Judge Hedwig Ong udi ordered the freezing of his accounts and prevented Gikonyo or a member of his family from selling their property or badets until the EACC investigation on the source of his fortune.
Gikonyo has several properties worth millions in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi listed under his name. He says that he is a tea grower and has accumulated his wealth through commercial ventures.
A detective said that the tax officer failed to produce documents to prove how he ambaded the wealth of his businesses. He would also have escaped taxation despite being an officer of the KRA
"Investigations revealed that at one point, Gikonyo and his wife were making huge cash deposits in their account for 200,000 shillings almost every day, they could not explain the source of these deposits, which led us to believe that the amounts were proceeds of crime, "said James Kariuki, investigator The evaluation report revealed that they owed 38 million shillings.They are involved in corruption cases of dishonesty and tax evasion and must be forced to hand over to the government everything they illegally acquired, "Kariuki said.
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