Three serial gold fraudsters were on Thursday charged a fresh at Milimani law court with allegedly obtaining Sh million by false pretence.
This is after the prosecution consolidated the charges where the accused persons are accused of obtaining the money by falsely pretending that they were in a position of supplying gold worth 142 kilograms.
The three Frank David Kateti, Alain Mwandia Nvita Lukusa, and Daniel Otieno Ogot pleaded not guilty of all the four counts before Milimani magistrate Wendy Nyamu who released them on the previous bond terms that were given to them by the previous courts.
Through their lawyer Danstan Omari, the three told the court that they have been supplied with the witness statements by the state ahead of the hearing and the determination of the case.
“We can confirm that we have received all the documents from the state in regard to this matter”, Said Omari
Omari who also applied for the release of the passport of the second accused person was however rejected by the state.
According to Omari there was no order in the previous court that directed that the passport be detained.
“The passport of the second accused person is in the hand of the police, there was no order from the previous court to detain the passport, we are therefore asking this honourable to have the said passport be released for the purpose of traveling, “Said Omari
According to the state, the passport is to secure the attendance of the accused persons in court, he can however seek the leave of the court to have his passport released whenever he wants to travel.
In the chargesheet, Kateti, Lukusa, and Ogot are accused that on different dates between February 5 and June 13 2024 at Nairobi city county, within the Republic of Kenya jointly with others not before court, they conspired to commit a felony namely stealing a sum of Sh341,931,276.107 and 2,018,016 from Asianic limited.
The prosecution said they falsely pretended that they were in a position to sell 142 kilograms of gold to the said Asianic limited the fact you knew to be faulty.
Four witnesses have been lined up to testify.
The case will be mentioned on October 7.
