BY SAM ALFAN.
A city lawyer has been found guilty of stealing Sh16 million from a trading company.
Macmillan Mutiso Mutinda was convicted by trial magistrate Martha Nanzushi in absentia, after failing to appear in court.
The court went ahead and issued a warrant for his arrest.
He was found guilty of stealing the money from Katitika Trading company between 2013 and 2014.
“I find that the Prosecution case has met the beyond reasonable doubt threshold. I will proceed to convict the accused pursuant to section 215 of Criminal Procedure Code (CPC),” ruled the Magistrate.
In the 10 page judgement, Nazushi said that the lawyer didn’t deny having received the money and gave account of disbursement.
The court noted that the lawyer didn’t account for the balance and did not pay the complainants as it was to be in excess of Sh16 million.
The magistrate said the prosecution called seven witnesses to support their case and the defense had an opportunity to cross-examine them.
Lawyer Mutinda gave unsworn statement in his defence and did not call any witness.
Mutinda was charged that on the diverse dates between 10th November in the year 2013 and 30th June in the year 2014 at consolidated Bank Koinange street branch in Nairobi County being agent of Katitika trading company ltd stole Sh16,205,200 the property of the said company which came into his possession in account of being an agent of the said company.
