{"id":144559,"date":"2026-06-22T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-kra-employees-arrested-over-ksh3m-bribe-demand-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:02:48","slug":"two-kra-employees-arrested-over-ksh3m-bribe-demand-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/two-kra-employees-arrested-over-ksh3m-bribe-demand-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Two KRA employees arrested over Ksh3M bribe demand claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employees have been arrested by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) for allegedly demanding a Ksh3 million bribe from a taxpayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suspects Faith Gathoni Njoroge and Tyson Marango Owuor, who are based at KRA\u2019s Upper Hill offices, were arrested following a complaint that they had demanded the bribe to influence the resolution of a Capital Gains Tax assessment valued at Ksh4.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">According to EACC, the commission conducted an operation after receiving the complaint, during which the two officials were allegedly arrested while receiving Ksh900,000 as part of the requested bribe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">The money was recovered during the operation, leading to the arrest of the two officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\">The suspects are currently being processed at the EACC\u2019s Integrity Centre as investigations continue, with the commission expected to recommend charges under the Anti-Bribery Act, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/two-kra-employees-arrested-over-ksh3m-bribe-demand-claims\/\">Two KRA employees arrested over Ksh3M bribe demand claims<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employees have been arrested by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) for allegedly demanding a Ksh3 million bribe from a taxpayer. The suspects Faith Gathoni Njoroge and Tyson Marango Owuor, who are based at KRA\u2019s Upper Hill offices, were arrested following a complaint that they had demanded the bribe to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}