A Kenyan accountant alleged to have conspired and stolen over Ksh 200 million from four different logistic companies was on Wednesday charged before a Mombasa Law Court.
The accountant who was presented before Mombasa Principal Magistrate Gladys Ollimo was charged with stealing Ksh 200,585,052 million from the four companies.
The ODPP led by Principal Counsel Alex Gituma revealed the accountant in question was slapped with several charges including; conspiracy to defraud, stealing by servant and false accounting.
‘’He was charged with conspiracy to defraud, stealing by servant, false accounting, forgery, uttering a false document, giving false information to a person employed in public service and money laundering,’’ the prosecution noted in a statement.
The prosecution told the court that the accountant jointly with others not before the court conspired and defrauded the four firms through fraudulent withdrawal of cash from one major bank in the country.
The prosecution also told the court that the accountant was involved in making false entries into one of the companies book of accounts, to show that another company he was dealing with, paid over Ksh 200 million to the four companies.
According to the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions(ODPP), the payment was for goods, forex trading remittances and other transactions.
The accountant was also accused of forging the signatures of another individual on May 20,2024 that he presented as belonging to the director of a company. He then used this to defraud the four companies.
Additionally, he faced another charge for giving false information to the Business Registration Officer by using a letter.
He convinced the officer to omit one of the directors he named in his company as a shareholder.
The accused denied all the charges and was released on a bond of Ksh 2.5 million with a surety of similar amount.
The court also summoned his two other co-accused to take plea to the charges. This came even as other two suspects in the case had been charged two months ago.
