A Pentecostal Church priest, pastor Peter Irungu Mwangi has been charged with stealing Sh420,000 from Stanbic Bank over the just ended festive season.
Appearing before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Esther Kimilu, Irungu was charged with six counts of forging a national identity card, uttering a forged document to a banker, stealing from a bank and attempted stealing.
He denied all the charges levelled against him by the state.
The prosecution led by senior state prosecutor Anne Munyua informed the court that the accused person impersonated to be one John Karugu Macharia, from whose account the money was allegedly stolen.
Munyua told the court that he presented a forged national ID to a bank teller at Stanbic Kenya Limited, Buruburu branch, while pretending it was his.
After the first successful withdrawal of Sh420,000 on December 21, 2022, Munyua said the accused returned to the bank again on December 24 for another withdrawal of Sh435,000 which did not sail through.
He applied to be freed on bond saying he will abide by the conditions imposed by the court. He was freed him on a cash bail of Sh400,000.
The offence occurred between December 21 and December 24 last year.