Two men charged over Sh230million land fraud in Nairobi
Two men were today charged today charged before a Milimani Law court over conspiracy to defraud of a parcel of land in Nairobi valued at Sh230million belonging to a private citizen.
While appearing before Milimani Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe the duo, Jacob Mwangi Mungai and Patrick Magu Kamau were accused of conspiring to dispossess John Irungu Huma trading as Thome Dynamic Limited off his land identified as Land Reference number 209/11391, IR 76726 measuring 1.3 hectares valued at 230,000,000.
The accused are said to have pretended that they had genuinely been allocated the said parcel by Nairobi City County.
The charge sheet showed they jointly and with others, not before the court forged a letter of allotment for the land measuring 3.2 acres with the intention of committing a fraud.
In the second count, the two were charged with forgery against the law.
Mwangi and Magu were charged that on similar dates and place, they forged a letter of allotment for the said land purporting it to be a genuine and valid letter of allotment issued by Nairobi City County knowing it was untrue.
The land in question is said to be registered in the name of the Bahati Development Welfare Association.
Mwangi faced a third count of uttering a false document against the law.
He was accused that on April 27,2021 at Milimani Law Courts ,within Nairobi County,knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged letter of Allotment for land parcel number LR 209/11391 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.
“We plead with the court to be release us on favourable bond terms as we are not a flight risk.” They pleaded with court.
The accused told Principal Magistrate Shikwe that they are small businessmen and the amount cited is outrageous and have been placed to frustrate them.
They were released on a Sh1million bond with an alternative of a Sh600,000 cash bail.
