Betway and SportyBet are being accused of fighting KRA after evading billions in taxes.
Hard-working staff at the Kenya Revenue Authority Large Taxpayers Office are being maligned at the behest of rogue taxpayers in the gambling sector SportyBet and Betway who have for years been evading taxes. Betway owes KRA almost 500 million and SportyBet whose directors are crooked Indians who have been blacklisted in seventeen African countries and the whole of Europe Jai Ashok Mahtani and Sudeep Ramesh Ramnani owe KRA 1.5 billion.
Akitt of Betway
The crooked and corrupt ‘businessmen’ according to insiders from KRA can only operate in banana Republics or Dubai. Betway is owned by racist and war profiteer Richard Akitt who made his money under the apartheid government of South Africa. Akitt has been twice sanctioned by UK’s Gambling Commission for not following appropriate policies, procedures, and controls to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing in breach of licence conditions 12.1.1 and 12.1.2. And noncompliance with the requirements of social responsibility code provision 3.4.1 (Customer interaction) relevant at the time of the failings, while Ramnani and Ashok have majorly thrived in Africa through bribery, death threats and voodoo to silence critics.
The two foreigners have colluded to destabilize KRA’s Large Taxpayers Office through a series of disinformation campaigns.
The office, led by a diligent civil servant Doreen Ndombi Mbingi has tightened the noose on rogue gambling operators who in turn have taken the war to courts, and political corridors of power and sadly, are prosecuting the hard-working civil servants in the court of public opinion through newspapers articles and blog posts.
The articles claim that staff are sabotaging President William Ruto’s demand that KRA must collect more taxes to actualize the Kenya Kwanza development agenda. ” Look at the gambling operators in the country. Those who follow the rules and pay taxes are allowed to operate. The ones who bring ukora have been shut down and now they are fighting back. It’s that simple.
It’s so difficult to be in her position. You have targets to hit. And you can’t hit targets if you are corrupt. The targets people in that office have are ridiculous.
They have targets so high that they never hit. So if someone was too corrupt then they can’t even hit half of their targets. It is all a smear campaign by disgruntled corruption networks,” says an insider from KRA.
Companies fingered to be using unscrupulous means to fight KRA include Blue Jays Limited and SportyBet whose licences were cancelled.
“KRA has no issues with them. They should just come for a round table talk and we agree on the way forward. We know they have been evading tax…they either come we sit down and agree on the way forward or we do another rigorous forensic audit to get the exact amount they owe in taxes.
Why haven’t they come? They create employment and KRA values such clients. All KRA wants are taxes to be paid so that the government has funds to drive the economic agenda of president Ruto.” Says a commissioner at the tax agency.
Doreen Ndombi Mbingi, who heads the large Taxpayers Office is a decorated civil servant who has risen in ranks and dedicated years of service to Kenya. “She has been threatened, humiliated, and the good thing is that her bosses are behind her and the team at Large Taxpayers Office. We won’t let corrupt business people kill her spirit,” says the commissioner.
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