Gideon Moi associate and graft baron Mukesh Gohil detained in Dubai over ivory smuggling -

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Unscrupulous Kenyan wheeler dealer Mukesh Gohil faces a heavy fine and imprisonment after he was arrested for attempting to smuggle ivory through the Dubai International Airport.

The Indian-Kenyan-British cowboy contractor was intercepted by hawk-eyed UAE police and customs officials who did not disclose how the smuggler was apprehended, but sources suggested the ivory was suspected to originate from Kenya and was destined for southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

Sources from Dubai told Kenyan News Day that Gohil, who holds dual citizenship, was desperately trying to reach handlers of Mama Ngina Kenyatta in an attempt to getting the former influential first lady to intervene and have him freed.

Other sources said Gohil had tried and failed to get Baringo Senator Gideon Moi to press buttons to enable him gain freedom.

According to the laws of the Emirati, ivory smugglers face fines up to USD15000 and/or a jail term of up to six months.

Mukesh Gohil is one of the most
notorious and dangerous barons of grand corruption in Kenya. His name has been associated with most of the largest scandals in the country and he remains the ruthless kingpin of the decades of plundering of state coffers that went on in Kenya in the 1980s and 1990s.