A Kenyan Member of Parliament is on the radar of United States authorities for reportedly evading a jail term.
Fafi MP Osman Mohamed was convicted with tax evasion in the US in 2015 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison, reports Daily Nation.
Mohamed had reportedly been charged with 32 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns amounting to $600,000.
He was arrested by undercover Criminal Investigation unit detectives of the Internal Revenue Service who approached him to prepare their Federal Income Tax Returns for 2007.
Mohamed used a company he co-owned with Yahya Sheikh to make fraudulent tax return documents with the aim of seeking tax refunds for his clients.
“The undercover agents did not provide him with an indication that they had incurred any of the false deductions that were placed upon the completed income tax returns,” Federal Tax Alert, an online publication reported.
After his arrest, Mohamed entered into a plea bargain agreement with the prosecutors and implicated his partner Sheikh, who had already fled the US to Canada.
The politician later got himself deported to Kenya as an illegal immigrant before serving his sentence.
American authorities are seeking to have him extradited to the US to serve his sentence.
Attempts by Daily Nation to get a comment from the MP were unsuccessful as he could not be reached.
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He has probably crossed the border to Somalia never to be "seen" again. I say follow the MP's monthly salary which will continue getting paid out to catch him.
Like most people have commented time and again, most Kenyans are not just THIEVES, they are also fraudsters coming in different form and shapes. They are economic fraudsters and con men, looking for any opportunity to mine unsuspecting and innocent clients of their hard earned dollars. Defrauding a government, like Fafi Osman Mohamed did, to the US government, is going too far: smart, smartest, smartest. In the US, your are a criminal, but once in Kenya, your are cerebrated, and IEBC don't give a heck. As said earlier, Kenyan fraudsters comes in all forms and shapes. They spread their tentacles in all spheres of life salivating for any soft target. I was once preyed upon 4 years ago when I was relocating back to Kenya and had a huge cargo to ship back home, by one William Ng'ang'a Macharia of 8302 Stewart Court, Laurel, MD 20724(Hyattsville, Prince George's County), born Feb.1972 about 6ft tall, and owns a 2003 Acura tag#2DJW96 and a 2011 maroon Honda Pilot tag#7BH9288, owner of DMV Shipping LLC, a Pharmacist by profession, last know employer Kaeser Permanente, of WhiteMash, Baltimore. Initially, I had made a deal with Titan Impex Shipping LLC of New Jersey, owned by a Mr Ndung'u, to ship the cargo at a good rate. But once William Ng'ang'a Macharia got the wind of my relocation, he smooth-talk me and offered an enticing lower deal. Cut the story short, 10 months later waiting for my cargo to arrive(usually takes 8 weeks), over 60% of my cargo (worth over $8785.00) was either lost or stolen. Fours years down the river road, this fraudster has been taking me in circles, talking of compensation that never was. I still regret even today for not taking Titan Impex LLC offer. This guy William Ng'ang'a Macharia think he outsmarted me. Well, he did. But I told him one blunt thing, that however long it will take, one day God will compensate me in full, and may him or his 4th generation, go through the pain and predicaments he punctured in me. And I even told him that all his life, if he ever hurt any other Kenyan man/woman from Maryland, may US and State government agencies including State Troopers, Baltimore City and Baltimore and Anne Arundel County police and even federal agencies, give him peace and comfort, as herein dictated. And that's not all, God is Supreme, and He listens to the cry of those in pain, and may fate befall before my sunset years. All in all, there are people who were born to hurt others, and get away with it, like William N. Macharia. I will always wish him well.
@ William N. Macharia, please ask for forgiveness and compensate @IdaVethi accordingly. It's the right thing to do. I feel his pain!
Dada IdaVethi umefanya jambo zuri sana kuchapisha jina la huyu tapeli jambazi ndugu yetu ili watu wengine wasije wakatapeliwa naye kwenye siku za usoni.
Asante sana na pia pole sana kwa yote mabaya yaliyokupata. Nakutakia kila la kheri Dada.
Gadamn Idavethi. Where did you go? How is Kenya? Everything ok? I know this guy? He is a crook. He tried to sweet talk me into giving him my stuff. I ran and ran.
Sorry Ida for what you've gone. Worked with Willy for a year or so. He never pay his debt. Bure kabisa.