Kenyan MP Wanted by US Authorities for Evading 1.5-Year Prison Sentence

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.