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| Jimi Wanjigi in court. |
Businessman Jimi Wanjigi spent Tuesday night in police cells at Kamukunji police station after his dramatic arrest in the Westlands district of Nairobi.
He is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, despite a court order halting his trial.
He was taken to the Milimani courthouse under tight security and handcuffed before being taken to the basement cells awaiting trial.
He was radiating confidence that he would be released.
"I'm fine, but this is political harassment. We will be free," he said.
Police plan to take him to court and charge him with alleged fraud, along with his wife, Irene Nzisa.
Wanjigi had barricaded himself in his office for over 20 hours as the police tried to arrest him.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Murima had issued a warrant to halt his arrest and prosecution, but detectives camped at the Kwacha House broke into the rooms and forcibly removed him.
A CCTV footage capturing the latest events of his arrest showed him standing in a corner as police smashed a door into his office.
After he was caught, he took his jacket and told the officers to give him time to talk to his lawyer.
They then towed him into a waiting car, before heading for a convoy to Kamkunji police cells, which is considered dirty and generally unsafe.
He was kept in an isolated place in cells, amid fears of the police that dozens of detained suspects might harm him.
The businessman had previously thrown away evidence that the police and prosecutor's office had used to charge him.
“This issue has been discussed and concluded in court. I'm not the manager of the company they used to blame me. This is wrong,” he said.
Police had filed a charge sheet containing eight charges, including forgery, which led the magistrate to issue an arrest warrant against him.
On December 10, detectives from the Land Fraud Unit forwarded the investigation file to the Director of Prosecution, with recommendations to charge Wanjigi, Nzisa, John Nyanjua Njenga, and Caroline Njoki, a lawyer, charged with receiving Sh56 million from Kenroid Limited, falsely claiming that . they were able to sell the company a 0.3314 hectare plot of land on the General Mathenge road in Westlands.
DCI had launched investigations to identify the real owners of the Grant IR No.65800 LR No.1870/II/200 land claimed by three parties, namely Aureum Ltd of Wanjigis, businesswoman Cissy Kalunde Musembi and Horizon Hills Limited. .
This therefore means that no such payment will be made from a non-existent account.
The investigation highlighted some discrepancies in a lawsuit in which Nzisa claimed that in 2010 she and her husband Wanjigi jointly purchased the land from Horizon Hills for Sh 154 million through Kairu and Tyl Company Limited (John Njenga).
