It has emerged that Monica Kimani arrived in Nairobi with a bag full of cash on the day she was killed in her apartment at Lamuria Gardens.
The money has not been found even as the state prepares to charge Joseph ‘Jowie’ Irungu and his fiancé Jacque Maribe with her murder.
The exact amount the businesswoman had carried from Juba remains unknown but detectives had been dispatched to South Sudan to establish an estimate of the money she had carried home.
The Star reported that when she landed at JKIA, Kimani was detained for several hours as she had large amounts of undeclared cash in foreign currency.
The daily further reported that she was released after intervention by a highly-connected individual.
Detectives have pleaded with the High Court to allow them more time to establish if money was the motive for her killing.
"The investigations are ongoing to establish any money that could have been taken from the deceased’s house. The deceased was to travel out of the country," Maxwell Otieno. One of the investigators, told the court.