The Court of Appeal has awarded $276,000 (Sh28,152,000) to a Rwandese businessman whose trucks were illegally seized and detained for three years and 10 months in 1998 by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
The appellate court slapped the penalty on KRA after it found that the taxman had illegally detained two trucks belonging to Habimana Sued Hemed, who had been contracted to transport two containers of second hand clothes and shoes.