An employee of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's (JKIA) customs department of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was detained for reportedly soliciting kickbacks and encouraging tax fraud.
The official was picked up by detectives from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Friday night and taken to the Integrity Center Police Station to be questioned.
In a statement to newsrooms on Saturday, the EACC said that the officer had asked a consignee who had travelled to JKIA to pick up a laptop delivered to him from the United States by a relative for a Ksh. 35,000 payment.
The KRA customs employee devalued the shipment so that the consignee would only have to pay Ksh. 12,000 instead of the Ksh. 100,974 in taxes that he was supposed to pay for the laptop.
However, she sought the aforementioned payment in exchange for helping to evade the tax and was detained as she was receiving it.
She spent the night at the Kilimani Police Station before being freed on monetary bail on Saturday, awaiting more inquiries.
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