BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
Two directors of United Millers and three employees of the company have case to answer over Sh79 million fraud, a Nairobi court has ruled.
City court magistrate R. Oganyo in a ruling put Sunil Narshi Shah, Kamal Narshi Punja Shah, Magnesh Kumar Verma and Henry Munyoki Kavita on their defense.
The five have been charged with conspiracy to defraud businesswomen B.N Kotecha and Sons limited of Ksh79 million by failure to supply sugar. They are charged with conspiring to defraud B.N Kotecha using forged court documents.
“I’m satisfied that the prosecution have established a case to warrant the suspects to be put on their defence. I hereby order all the accused persons to defend themselves in the matter,” Oganyo ruled.
Prosecution had called a total of eleven witnesses before closing the case.
In the defence, the accused persons indicated that they intended to call five witnesses during the hearing and asked the court for more time to supply to the prosecution details of the witnesses.
The accused persons are alleged to have conspired to defraud Kotecha and Sons ltd of Sh79.4 million by falsely pretending to have lost business after the supplier allegedly failed to supply sugar to United Millers. They are alleged to have committed the offence on April 2, 2015.
They are further accused of presenting fake documents before the High Court in Kisumu in October 2015, a case that was pending in court.
The company and its directors are alleged to have filed a case in court seeking refund of their monies together with special damages amounting to Sh79.4 million claiming to have lost business as a result of the failing to get the supply of sugar.
They are currently out on a cash of Sh400, 000 and a bond of 1 million.
