BY PHOEBE WANJOHI.
An advocate of the High court accused of stealing shares worth over Sh 23 million will remain in custody for a month after he was arrested for jumping bail.
Lawyer Robert Langat was brought before Milimani magistrate Zainab Abdul following his arrest after he failed to appear to court for the trial of his criminal case.
The Magistrate ordered him to be remanded at Kilimani police station pending directions by the trial court on April 20.
She said the advocate was treating the matter casually, a conduct that may become worse if tolerated.
Lang’at was arrested on Tuesday evening by officers as he attended a postmortem of a relative at Chiromo mortuary.
The trial court had issued warrant of arrest and forfeiture of his cash bail, after he failed to appear in court on several occasions, for the hearing of his case.
Lawyer Langat is charged alongside Gerald Mwiti Murithi where the are accused that on diverse dates between March 8, 2017 and April 7, 2017 at Kingdom securities limited in Nairobi county, jointly with others not before court, they stole 1,026,700 shares valued at shilling 23,697,131.15 from Kingdom securities limited.
The two are further accused that on unknown dates and place, with intent to defraud, jointly with others not before court, forged a certificate of confirmation of grant purporting to be a genuine and issued and signed at Milimani by High Court judge Aggrey Muchelule.
Mwiti is accused that on the same dates in the year 2017 at Kingdom securities limited in Nairobi otherwise than in the cause of stealing received money from the sale of the shares of Sh23,697,131.15 into his account held at Spire bank Waiyaki Way formerly Krep bank branch knowing or having reason to believe them to be stolen property.
He is also accused that jointly with others not before court are facing a charge of conspiring to defraud Kingdom securities limited Sh 23,697,131.15.
The duo are out on cash bail of Sh 100,000 each.
