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Nairobi businessman pleads guilty to cheating woman out of Sh900,000

A businessman has pleaded guilty to the charges of cheating and obtaining Ksh 900,000 by cheating that he was able to get a work permit for her cousin.

Kennedy Ng’ang’a Kimani appeared before the Milimani Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina where he faced and denied the charges of cheating to get the money contrary to section 315 of the Penal Code.
He was charged that on August 30, 2024 at Nairobi CBD within Nairobi county, jointly with another who was  before the court by means of fraudulent tricks obtained the money from Elizabeth Sugut Kipkoech by falsely pretending that they were in a position to secure a work permit to United Kingdom for her cousin a fact which was false. He pleaded guilty to the charges levelled against him.
“Your honour, it is true, I am aware of those transactions,” he responded.
While giving the facts of the offence, the state  prosecutor told the court that the accused person owns a company, Ultimate Quest Travel Services Limited, which he fraudulently used to trick and obtain the said money from the complainant.
The complainant approached the accused person on April 2024 to process work permits for her two cousins, Augustine Kipchumba and Patrick Nguchi, who wanted to travel to Turkey for green pastures.
On August 30, 2024, the accused person made a call to the complainant and told her that there is another work permit for United Kingdom where she deposited Ksh 900,000 in the account of the accused person held at Stanbic Bank.
Since then the complainant had not received the work permit nor get refunded his money.
She decided to report the matter to the police where the accused person was arrested.
The prosecution produced before the court bank statements from Stanbic Bank indicating the money that was wired to the accused.
In giving directions on the matter, the magistrate convicted the accused person with the offence of cheating contrary to the law,
“I have convicted the accused person with the offence of cheating contrary to section 315 of the Penal Code,” the magistrate stated.
Pending the delivering of the sentence, the magistrate directed a pre-sentence report to be produced in court before sentencing him on January 23, 2025.
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