BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A Congolese national has been charged in a Nairobi court with obtaining over Sh 4. 2 million claiming to sell 10 kilograms of gold.
Evariste Kazadi Bwabwa appeared before Milimani Senior principal magistrate Benard Ochoi and pleaded not guilty to the charge of obtaining money by false pretences.
Kazadi is accused that on diverse date between March 13 and 28 last year at Riverside and Westgate Mall in Westlands in Nairobi jointly with others not before court obtained from Amit Srivastava of Ibrahim Ahmed General Trading Sh 4, 260,000 million.
Prosecution told the court Kazadi did so by falsely pretending that he was in position to sell 10 kilograms of gold, a fact he knew was false.
He was released on a bond of Sh 5 million or a cash bail of Sh1 million.
The court was told the matter will be consolidated with a similar matter where Sikanda Ismael Abdallah Saleh alias Salim is charged with similar charges.
Sikanda is accused of representing himself as the CEO of Kunii Young International limited at Riverside in Lavington.
He is out on a cash bail of the similar amounts.
