Deepak Rajoriya – Oki General Trading (Kenya)
Key fundamental issues arose and cast questions on whether Oki General Trading (Kenya) is part of the companies that have been evading paying tax and costing the government billions annually.
The issue took a dramatic twist this week when the prosecution’s key witness, Deepak Rajoriya, faced tough cross-examination that exposed disturbing details on how Oki General Trading (Kenya) has been allegedly evading Tax. He as who previously worked in the finance and accounts department of the parent company abroad, testified that he was sent to Kenya to investigate suspected irregularities. Records show he entered the country on 25th December.
Rajoriya was testifying in the case because details linked him to a senior position in the company as the director of Oki General Trading. The cross-examinations showed that, almost immediately, he commissioned a “forensic audit”, which now forms the backbone of the prosecution’s claims of a KES 356 million misappropriation.
But under cross-examination, the cracks quickly appeared and showed that the company has not been paying Tax.
Deepak Rajoriya further, Rajauriya went silent, visibly looking disturbed. When he was asked how the said millions went missing after a successful audit. The Audit shows did leave nothing untouched and it’s said to have been
During the questioning session, Rajauriya admitted that he conducted no internal investigation, produced no company records, and had nothing to support his allegations beyond the reports of an auditor he himself appointed mere weeks after arriving in Kenya. The independence — or even authenticity — of those reports is now under serious question. In an explosive twist, it was noted in open court that Oki General Trading is on a Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) penalty of KES 356 million, the same amount the former director was accused of embezzling.
The glaring coincidence has fuelled speculation: is the company attempting to shift blame for its unpaid tax obligations onto an ex-director, conveniently masking its liability to KRA under the guise of “misappropriation”? The cross-examinations show that Deepak Rajoriya arrived in Kenya as a tourist, became a director in two weeks, produced a contested audit almost immediately, and could not reconcile years of clean audits with sudden allegations of theft, which has only deepened doubts about the strength of the prosecution’s case.
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