BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
A US businessman has been charged Before a Nairobi Magistrate court with perjury and forging an investment agreement.
Mohamed Yasin Botan appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Robinson Ondieki and denied the charges.
He is accused that on 11th January this year at Milimani Commercial Court in Nairobi, jointly with others not before court, with intent to deceive, they forged an investment agreement dated 1st January 2021 for Habsom Investment company limited purporting it to ve genuine agreement signed by Bashir Hussein Abdisalam and Abdi Osman Jumaa, the directors of Habsom.
Prosecution charged Botan with fraudulently uttering the said agreement presented at Milimani Commercial Court, purporting it to be genuine.
The court heard that Botan, in a sworn affidavit before Chesikaw and Kipkorir Advocates, a commissioner of oaths and filed in a judicial proceeding suit No. COMMSU E017 of 2024 at Milimani Commercial, he knowingly gave false testimony touching on the matter which was material to a question then pending in that civil suit.
The accused is alleged to have committed the offense on 11th January 2024 at Milimani Commercial Court in Nairobi, jointly with others not before court and with intent to deceive.
He was released on a bond of Sh 300,000 plus one surety of a similar amount.
He was ordered to deposit his traveling documents in court to ensure he does not leave the jurisdiction of the court.
