{"id":31507,"date":"2017-01-02T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-focus-proprietor-arrested-over-counterfeit\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T09:07:59","slug":"rwanda-focus-proprietor-arrested-over-counterfeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-focus-proprietor-arrested-over-counterfeit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Focus proprietor arrested over counterfeit, tax evasion charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The proprietor of Rwanda Focus Limited, Shyaka Kanuma has been arrested in connection with evading taxes and a procurement-related offence through which he fraudulently won a tender in Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (RDRC).}<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda National Police (RNP) deputy spokesperson, Chief Supt. Lynder Nkuranga confirmed the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShyaka Kanuma was arrested on Saturday evening acting on a formal case filed by Rwanda Revenue Authority regarding unpaid taxes that accumulated over the years, among other crimes,\u201d Chief Supt. Nkuranga said, without giving details because the case is under investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently detained at Remera Police station pending further investigations into charges brought against him,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that Shyaka owes the tax body Rwf65 million which he evaded in the last three years, through varied unscrupulous means.<\/p>\n<p>He is also alleged to have fraudulently won a tender worth Rwf44 million from the demobilization commission after he used names of people he would use to execute the tender, as a prerequisite, who were not informed that they were part of the bid.<\/p>\n<p>The demobilization commission allegedly awarded Kanuma a Rwf44 million tender on the basis of \u201cdeliberate falsified information\u201d after he used names of partners who were neither partners nor aware their names were being used.<\/p>\n<p>Kanuma closed his media company \u2013 Rwanda Focus Limited \u2013 recently apparently over financial-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShyaka is a conman who has been evading taxes, fraudulently cheating various institutions and couldn\u2019t even pay his employees,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that by the time he closed his company, Shyaka also owed different people and his employees over Rwf18 million.<\/p>\n<p>He is also said to have acquired a grant of Rwf3 million from Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) apparently to run his media business, which he instead used to service part of the Rwf90 million bank loan, which he is currently struggling to service.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17392 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/8512140145_7e06cd410c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Shyaka Kanuma,the proprietor of Rwanda Focus Company which has closed recently.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The proprietor of Rwanda Focus Limited, Shyaka Kanuma has been arrested in connection with evading taxes and a procurement-related offence through which he fraudulently won a tender in Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Commission (RDRC).} Rwanda National Police (RNP) deputy spokesperson, Chief Supt. Lynder Nkuranga confirmed the arrest. \u201cShyaka Kanuma was arrested on Saturday evening acting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31507"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31507"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}