{"id":22145,"date":"2019-03-26T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22145"},"modified":"2019-03-26T19:16:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T19:16:23","slug":"kenya-billionaire-humphrey-kariuki-challenges-dual-citizenship-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/kenya-billionaire-humphrey-kariuki-challenges-dual-citizenship-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Billionaire Humphrey Kariuki challenges dual citizenship law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By MAUREEN KAKAH<\/p>\n<p>Business tycoon Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa, the owner of Africa Spirits Limited who is facing a tax evasion investigation, has moved to court to challenge a law on the declaration of dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives who questioned Mr Kariuki on the alleged evasion of taxes amounting to Sh3 billion were surprised by the realisation that he is a citizen of Cyprus. The Nation exclusively learnt that he was questioned on the dual citizenship and on why he had not disclosed it as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman took court action on Tuesday, his goal being the suspension of the section of the law that specifies a punishment for failure to disclose dual citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Tycoon-tax-probe-fights-dual-citizenship-law\/1056-5043072-esensj\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Tycoon-tax-probe-fights-dual-citizenship-law\/1056-5043072-esensj\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MAUREEN KAKAH Business tycoon Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa, the owner of Africa Spirits Limited who is facing a tax evasion investigation, has moved to court to challenge a law on the declaration of dual citizenship. Detectives who questioned Mr Kariuki on the alleged evasion of taxes amounting to Sh3 billion were surprised by the realisation [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-kenya","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22146,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions\/22146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}