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Probe: Sony imported duty free sugar for firm at a fee

Sony Sugar acting MD Bernard Otieno when he appeared before a parliamentary team yesterday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Sony Sugar Company has admitted that it imported sugar on behalf of another firm at an agency fee of Sh82 million.

The company acting Managing Director Bernard Otieno yesterday told joint team probing the alleged contraband sugar that M/s Holbud limited the struggling miller to import 50,500 metric tonnes of sugar worth Sh3.5 billion.

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