Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Kenya: Accountant charged with stealing Sh3.2 million at Harambee House



Mr John Marios Muchiri, an  accountant at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Harambee House office has been charged with stealing Sh3.2 million from the government.


The prosecution said Mr  Muchiri conspired with others not before court and siphoned the money between December 1, 2009 and August 24, 2011 through falsified payrolls ghost staff purported to have taken loans from a phantom company.

He denied that he pretended hat the forged payrolls were genuine credit recovery of Sh3.2 million for Molyn Credit Limited who had offered loans to staff at the Office of the President.

The suspect also denied a charge of conspiracy stating that between December 2009 and August 2011 in the Office of the President at Harambee House, Nairobi, jointly with others not before court, conspired to defraud the government by means of forging staff payroll to purport they had taken loans.

The suspect has been ordered to deposit a cash bail of Sh900,000 or deposit a bond of Sh1.8 million pending hearing on May 19.

He was also ordered to appear for a mention of the case on May 4 at the Milimani chief magistrate’s court.




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