{"id":72130,"date":"2024-07-30T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/30\/kra-official-charged-for-extorting-sh5mn-to-slash-sh25mn-tax-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:19:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:19:35","slug":"kra-official-charged-for-extorting-sh5mn-to-slash-sh25mn-tax-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kra-official-charged-for-extorting-sh5mn-to-slash-sh25mn-tax-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"KRA official charged for extorting Sh5mn to slash Sh25mn tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 30 \u2014 A Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employee was on Tuesday arraigned at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court on four charges of receiving a bribe, in violation of Section 6(1)(a) as read with Section 18 of the Anti-Bribery Act No. 47 of 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) said that David Omondi Omogo, an employee of the Domestic Taxes Department at KRA allegedly solicited a financial bribe of Sh5 million from Pascal Ovinda, purportedly intended to influence a reduction in tax arrears owed by Infinity Benefits Limited to the taxman, totaling Sh25. 2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Omogo pleaded not guilty to the charges when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Thomas Nzyoki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was released on a cash bail of Ksh. 3 million or a bond of KSh. 6 million with one surety of an equivalent amount,\u201d ODPP said.<\/p>\n<p>The Magistrate also ordered that Omogo surrender his passports to the court and refrain from interfering with any witnesses involved in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The case is set for mention on August 8, 2024.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 30 \u2014 A Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employee was on Tuesday arraigned at the Milimani Anti-Corruption Court on four charges of receiving a bribe, in violation of Section 6(1)(a) as read with Section 18 of the Anti-Bribery Act No. 47 of 2016. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) said [&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-72130","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\/72130","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=72130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}