BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A Nairobi tycoon Mohan Galot has been charged before a Nairobi court with several criminal charges relating to the control of Multi billion Shilling businesses.
The businessman appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Peter Ooko and denied nine counts of making a document without authority, uttering a false document and giving false information to person employed in a public office.
Galot was charged after High Court judge Luka Kimaru directed the case before trial court commence immediately.
The charges against him states that on January 18,2002 at unknown place with intent to defraud and without lawful authority made a false documents namely notification of change of directors and secretaries of King Woollen Mills Limited Company purporting it to be genuine document made by the directors of King Woollen Mills Limited.
Galot is further accused that on the same day January 2002 at Sheria House Registrar of companies office in Nairobi knowingly uttered a false document namely notification of change of directors and secretaries of King Woollen Mills Limited company dated January 18,2002 to the registrar of companies.
Prosecution further accused the tycoon that on March 28,2002 at Sheria house registrar office of companies knowingly gave false information to Registrar of Companies a notification of the companies change of directors and secretaries of the above company dated January 18,2002 to the effect that the accused nephew Pravin Galot and Rajesh Galot being directors of the said company had resigned as directors on January 4,2001 a fact he knew to be false.
Galot also faced another charge on or about May 18,2007 at unknown place with intent to defraud and without lawful authority made a false document namely Annual Return for the year 2006 of King Woolen Mills Limited Company number 21676 purporting it to be genuine document made by the Directors of King Woolen Mills Limited.
“A plea of not guilty has been entered against the accused person and i direct the accused to be released on earlier bond terms of Sh 1 million or a cash Bail of Sh 500,000 granted on May 23,2015 when he first pleaded to the charges,’ ruled the magistrate.
The charges against Galot were reinstated by the High court after the lower court had terminated three cases of forgeries after the charges were found to be defective.
Mohan has two other case which are pending in another court where he is charged together with his wife Santosh Galot.
They were earlier acquitted by former Milimani Chief magistrate Daniel Ogembo who has since been appointed as a High Court Judge following application by their lawyer Kiraithe Wandungi saying the charges were not properly drawn since there is no complainant.
Ogembo in his ruling noted that the battle for the control of the Galot Group of Companies has serious legal differences with several applications pending in court.
The family has fallen out over the ownership and control of the Multi billion Shilling businesses, which include Kings Wollen Mills, Manchester outfitters limited and London Distillers where several cases are still pending in the court.
Earlier the couple had informed the court that Pravin Galot nephew to them is not a director or shareholder of companies namely Galot industries limited and Kings Woolen Mills Limited.
The two other cases against Mohan Galot and his wife has since been suspended pending the outcome of the High Court applications.
Ooko fixed the April 18 as pretrial conferencing of the matter and the June 26 as the hearing date.
