A shareholding dispute in a Nairobi-based company has sucked in chief taxman John Njiraini in a complex case involving a tax dispute, an offshore company and proxy directors.
Court papers indicate that Mr Njiraini, the Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner General, has been sued by a city businessman, Mr Njama Wambugu, for allegedly initiating tax inquiries and demands with ulterior motives, and putting pressure on the trader to forgo his shareholding in Space and Style Ltd, a multimillion-shilling supplier of building materials.
But Mr Njiraini insists that he is not a shareholder in Space and Style, arguing that Mr Wambugu is using the court to blackmail him into helping the trader stop tax-related investigations into his firms.
“To my mind, these malicious and unfounded allegations are driven largely by my refusal to accede to requests by the 1st Petitioner, delivered through two emissaries between August and September 2018, seeking my intervention to halt tax investigations, said to have been in progress at the time against the petitioners,” Mr Njiraini says in court papers.
Mr Wambugu swore an affidavit that was filed at the High Court on March 4. 2019.
