BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Total Halal a quality company Kenya limited manager has been charged with stealing over Sh 10.5 million.
Hussein Mukhtar Haji appeared before Senior Principal Magistrate Sinkyian Tobiko and denied charges of stealing by servant
He is accused that in diverse dates between November 27 and July 2 2020 at first community bank in Nairobi county, being a servant of Total Halal as office manager jointly with others not before court, stole Sh 10,553,328 property of the said company.
Prosecution opposed the accused person to be released on bond saying he faces severe charges.
According to an affidavit filed in court opposing bail, the prosecution claimed that the accused has been collecting company money and keeping it in the office safe since April this year, when the company accounts were frozen and directors barred from withdrawing money from the account.
The investigating officer said the accused will interfere with evidence given that other two directors of the company who are believed to be connected to the offence are foreigners and are out of the country and will facilitate his flight.
The court will deliver his bail ruling after seven days.
