This archive report was first published on 10 September 2019.
On September 10, 2019, a company called Africa Spirits Limited (ASL) filed a case in court seeking to lift orders issued by Kiambu Chief Magistrate on August 16 freezing bank accounts of nine companies associated with Humphrey Kariuki.
The frozen accounts are held at the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) and the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), and the company is seeking to have them unfrozen.
ASL's lawyer, Cecil Miller, argued that the orders issued by the Kiambu courts are illegal as the affected parties were not included in the case by the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji.
Miller also urged the court to suspend the hearing of the tax evasion case pending before Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku at the Milimani Law Courts and another at the Thika Law Courts.
"I urge this court to stay the orders issued on August 16 to enable ASL to mitigate the ruinous, prejudicial and detrimental harm, loss and damages to the companies whose accounts have been preserved," Miller pleaded.
