BY SAM ALFAN.
Two men have been charged with defrauding a company of a parcel of land valued at Sh230 million.
Jacob Mwangi Mungai and Patrick Magu Kamau are accused of conspiring to defraud John Irungu Huma trading as Thome Dynamic Limited land reference number 209/11391 IR.76726 measuring 1.300 hectares and valued at approximately Sh230 million.
The charge stated that they falsely pretended that they were genuinely allocated the said parcel by Nairobi City County.
The duo is alleged to have committed the offense on or before 16th June 2010, at an unknown place in the country, jointly with others not before court.
Mungai and Kamau are also charged with forging a letter of allotment for the said land and purporting it to be a genuine and valid letter of allotment issued by Nairobi City Council.
Mungai is further charged with uttering a false the forged letter of allotment.
The court heard that on 27th April 2021 at Milimani Law Courts, Mungai knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged Letter of allotment for the said parcel of land, registered in the name of Bahati Development Welfare Association to the Deputy Registrar Milimani Law Courts purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Nairobi City County.
The accused persons denied the charges before Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe.
The defense lawyer requested the court to release the two on reasonable cash bail.
The accused persons who live in Saika and Kahawa Sukari respectively told the court that they are small business owners and not at flight risk.
The magistrate granted each accused person a bond of Sh 1 million with one surety of a similar amount.
Alternatively, each can deposit a cash bail of Sh 600,000 and provide two contact persons to secure their release pending the hearing and determination of the case.
The case will be mentioned on 5th November for pre-trial
