A Mombasa businessman Maur Abdhalla Bwanamaka, who was last week Tuesday found guilty of evading Sh13 million tax, has been sentenced to one year in prison by a Mombasa court. According to court documents, Bwanamaka, who was a director at Federal Investment Commercial Limited, on October 28, 2019 imported rice and scrap metal, but falsely under-declared its value to evade paying actual tax. However, the actual number of the imported bags of rice was 15,045 and 16 tonnes of scrap metal. Mombasa Chief magistrate Edna Nyaloti also ordered Bwanamaka’s co-accused Ahmed to pay Sh1 million fine and Mer to pay Sh500,000 or serve a one year jail term each. Additionally, Nyaloti ordered the Federal Investment and Commercial Limited to pay the outstanding tax of Sh9,645,163 owed to Kenya Revenue Authority.

Source: The Star June 04, 2021 10:30 UTC