This archive report was first published on 16 December 2019.
On November 26th, Paul Topf, a retired German soldier, went missing after he was reportedly picked by people believed to be police officers from his home in Lungalunga, Kwale County.
According to his wife Neema Nyawira, Topf was taken by four men and a woman who claimed to be officers from the Immigration Department.
However, immigration officials have now revealed that Topf was deported after the Ministry of Interior received a request from German authorities to have him sent back to his country over crimes he had committed there.
"He was suspected to be dealing in some suspicious businesses here, the Kenyan government did some investigations on him but they did not get anything and so they handed him back to his government," an Immigration official, who sought anonymity, told Sunday Nation on December 16th, 2019.
Topf's wife had earlier stated that she had been in communication with his sister, who informed her that her husband arrived safely in Germany on December 4th.
But detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) maintained that Topf did not leave the country and even questioned Nyawira in connection with the foreigner’s disappearance.
