City businessman Yogesh Patel has gone to court accusing tycoon Jimmy Wanjigi, his wife Irene Nzisa Wanjigi and their two companies of allegedly defrauding him of Ksh56 million.
Patel claimed that Aureum Ltd, a company owned by the couple, and Augustine Kairo Thuo, had agreed to sell his company, Kenroid Kenya Limited, a 0.818-acre piece of land in Westlands for Ksh266 million.
The land deal was supposed to be sealed in June 2018, and he then made a deposit of Ksh56 million.
The businessman went on to allege that Wanjigi’s firm then transferred the land to someone else, one Cissy Kalunde Musembi and refused to refund his deposit.
He filed the case through his company Kenroid Limited where he is the Managing Director.
Kenroid alleges that Aureum was just a shell that was used by Wanjigi’s wife, Tyl limited (Wanjigi’s company) and Thuo to collect his deposit.
Kenroid now wants the transfer to the other party reversed.
It also claimed that the land could be a public utility and may have been one of the parcels highlighted by the Ndung’u land report of 2006.
A report by Nation indicated that the said piece of land LR Number 1870/II/200 was not in the list.
It was further reported that Aureum was initially called Horizon Hills Limited but was rebranded after the registrar of companies verified that there was another company with the same name.
The other firm, Horizon Hills Limited, and its directors, David Njenga, Samson Kuria, Henry Njoroge Njenga, and Samuel Njuguna Chege have been named as respondents in the case.
