The High Court in Malindi has stopped deportation of an Italian investor Mario Mele, 56.

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Kenyan police claim he is wanted in Italy to face interrogation over a 2013 tax evasion probe.

Mario’s whereabouts since he was snatched from his Patapata Beach Hotel in Malindi on Wednesday by about ten unknown armed men who burst in after barricading the property remained unknown for close to 48 hours until Friday amid reports Kenyan authorities were plotting to extradite him to Italy immediately.

His lawyer Gicharu Kimani and senior police officers who asked not to be named revealed that Mario was seized from among revelers in a brazen raid that caused a heavy commotion.