Director of Criminal Investigations boss George Kinoti has secured the services of city lawyer Donald Kipkorir to represent him in a civil case that was filed by Sarah Wairimu Cohen.
In a letter addressed to Wairimu’s lawyer, Philip Murgor and State prosecutor, Catherine Mwaniki, Kinoti says he only read on social media that Wairimu had sued him for contempt of court.
Kinoti, who has been at the center of investigations in a case involving the death of the Dutch tycoon who was found murdered and dumped in a septic tank in his Kitisuru home, said he was out of Kenya at the time of case filing and that the state was yet to receive the petition against him
In an urgent letter to Wairimu’s lawyer, Kinoti has asked Murgor to serve his legal rep, Kipkorir, with the application.
On Tuesday, October 15, Tob Cohen’s widow, Sarah Wairimu, filed to have Kinoti, Nation’s special projects boss and senior journalist, John Kamau, and State prosecutor Juma Victor Owiti jailed for six months for contempt of court.
Wairimu’s list also included the Office of the DPP (3rd respondent) and that of the DCI (1st respondent). The applicant wants the two offices fined for contempt.
Wairimu said the five respondents disobeyed an edict issued by Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit on September 16, which barred the DCI, DPP and the media from publishing content involving investigations into Tob Cohen’s death.
Wairimu accused DCI chief Kinoti (2nd accused) of “prosecuting” the case against her on September 13 after discovering Cohen’s body in his Kitisuru home.
“…[ On September 13], the 1st and 2nd respondents, knowing well that there was no iota of evidence directly or indirectly linking the applicant to the murder of her husband, continued to prosecute their trumped-up case against the applicant through the print and electronic media by going into a frenzy of: malicious and unsubstantiated allegations; unsolicited commentaries; uninformed opinions; and unverified theories, all calculated to depict the applicant as a cold-hearted originator, facilitator and executor of her husband’s initial disappearance and subsequent murder,” said Wairimu in her application filed at the High Court in Nairobi on Tuesday, October 15.
This comes just two weeks after Warimu filed her first affidavit in court raising questions on the alleged intent of Kinoti over property that was allocated to Cohen’s sister Gabrielle Van Straten.
Wairimu accused Kinoti of holding on to her matrimonial property with the aim of “handing it over on a silver platter to interested parties, including the siblings of the deceased as confirmed in an article published in The Star newspaper on September 16 titled Cohen gave sister Ksh400 million will”.