A firm associated with tycoon Humphrey Kariuki has moved to seeking to restore its bank accounts.
The firm, African Spirits, has asked the court to unfreeze its accounts at National Bank and Kenya Commercial Bank to enable it continue with its operations pending probe into the wealthy man’s tax evasion case.
The proprietors of the firm have lamented that the order to freeze their accounts, which was obtained from the Kiambu Law Courts by the unfreeze their bank accounts, frozen through an order obtained in Kiambu Law courts through an application by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), is unfair to their operations in the business sector.
The DPP obtained the orders to freeze the bank account of the businessman the alleged tax evasion amounting to Sh41 billion.
DPP Noordin Haji said the case is a subject of criminal offense, adding that he has sufficient evidence against the tycoon and his co-directors in the case.
Through his lawyer Cecil Miller said that he innocent, adding the application was urgent.
The lawyer made the application when presenting his case before judge Justice Jessie Lesiit on Monday.
“The orders ought to be set aside as they have caused great prejudice to innocent parties and especially the workers who need to be paid their salaries,” the applicant argues, as quoted by Capital FM.