This archive report was first published on 19 December 2019.
December 19, 2019, Nairobi - Sarah Wairimu Cohen, the wife of slain Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen, has filed an urgent application seeking compensation and a death certificate for her husband.
According to court documents, Wairimu wants the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to provide an undertaking of Sh500 million to cover damages to her property, including the potential loss and damages of the estate, for the illegal seizure and detention of her house in Kitsuru.
She also wants the DCI to provide a full inventory of the property and the steps taken by the office to preserve its condition.
Wairimu claims that she and Cohen jointly owned the property known as LR No. 2951 449, situated at Farasi Lane, Mugumoini Close, Lower Kabete, which was jointly purchased on June 7, 2000, and registered in Cohen's name by mutual agreement.
She adds that Cohen held the property in trust for both of them and that they jointly began developing it in 2007 by erecting a dwelling house where they resided as a married couple together with their daughter Renee Gathoni Chattle.
Wairimu says the property was their matrimonial home for 12 years and that she is the only widow of Cohen who lived with him as man and wife since 1998, before they solemnized their marriage on May 30, 2017.
She wants the Registrar of Births and Deaths, Department of Civil Registration, to issue a death certificate in respect of the deceased Tob Cohen.
