A lawyer and a businessman were on Tuesday charged before a court of law after allegedly defrauding a US citizen Sh137 million in a fake gold deal.
Nicholas Otieno Ndolo and Thomas Otieno Ngoe appeared before senior principal magistrate Zainab Abdul at the Milimani law courts, where they both pleaded not guilty to three counts.
The two were accused of obtaining money by false pretenses, conspiracy to commit a felony, and forgery, committed on dates between February 3 and 11, 2023, through a bank at Yaya Centre Branch Kilimani.
Through their lawyers, the two businessmen pleaded for leniency claiming they have been out on a cash bail of Sh500,000 each before Kibera law courts where they had been charged last month pending investigations.
They asked the court to maintain the same bond terms since they are not at flight risk.
The magistrate granted them a cash bail of Sh500,000 with two Kenyan sureties.
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A man has been sentenced to six months in prison after verbally abusing his siter-in-law.
According to court details, Zakaria Ingutia hurled unprintable insults at his in-laws before a crowd at Shibuli market in Kakamega county.
Ingutia appeared before Senior Principal Magistrate Dolphina Alego where in his defence pleaded to settle the matter out of court noting that it was right for the issues to be handled at a family level.
“No one is perfect and misunderstanding in a family is something that cannot be avoided. I did wrong to my sister-in-law and feel that before I plead to the charge you give us time to settle it at the family level,” he stated.
“My dear sweet in-law, nobody is perfect, and I still love you despite you bringing me to court but it’s better if we could do away with the court and solve the matter from home,”
“Considering the mitigation, the accused should serve six months’ suspended sentence,” Alego ruled.
