BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Two employees were charged with 31,000 litres of diesel on transit the property of Duale Transporters Services Limited.
Charles Maina Munuhe and Wilfred Kieru Macharia denied stealing diesel worth Sh 2,946,041 which had been entrusted to them to deliver it to China Communication Construction limited in Kajiado County, from Hass Petroleum limited in Nairobi.
The two are alleged to have committed the offence on diverse dates between 30th April and 5th May 2019 along Nairobi-Ngong road in Nairobi.
Munuhe and Macharia are also facing a charge of conspiracy to steal the said diesel. Munuhe, alone, is charged with forgery and uttering a false document.
He is alleged to have forged a received delivery note for Sh 2,946,041 purporting it to be a genuine delivery note from the Chinese company, May 2, 2019. It is alleged that he committed the offence jointly with others not before court.
The accused is also charged that May 3, at Duale Transporters Limited in Industrial area, Nairobi, Knowingly and fraudulently uttered the forged delivery note purporting it to be genuine.
They denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi and released on a cash bail of Sh 300,000.
The case will be mentioned on 24th June and will be heard on 2nd August this year.
