Thursday, December 9, 2021 -Detectives are still looking for a billionaire businesswoman who is hiding in Weston Hotel along Lang’ata Road.
The lady is reportedly hiding from the taxman who is on her neck for evading tax worth sh 2.2 billion.
Mary Wambui Mungai is holed up in the Ruto-linked hotel now for the third day in her attempt to avade the dragnet.
Sources told Homenews.co.ke that the business-lady alongside her accomplice Purity Njoki Mungai are still hiding in the facility after they changed rooms shortly before the KRA officers accompanied by DCI police stormed the building.
Authorities told the media that several belongings including their car keys had already been found in one of the rooms in the hotel.
“Upon searching the hotel premises, government officers and the police found personal belongings of the two including cash, bank cards and car keys; a clear indication that the two were residing at the hotel,” read the statement in part.
Currently, police are still surrounding the area in search of the duo who have been confirmed to be directors at Purma Holdings Company.
Police are acting on a warrant of arrest issued against the two women after they ignored court summons in the sh 2.2 billion tax evasion.
The two family members – Mungai and her daughter Purity Njoki – did not show up in court to take a plea what triggered Chief Magistrate Felix Mutinda Kombo to issue the arrest warrant to force them appear in court.
They are being represented by Lawyer Silvanus Osoro who has been claiming that Mungai was admitted in hospital for an unknown condition.