A businessman was today charged at a Milimani law court with conspiracy to defraud USD 450,000.
The court heard that Peter Mutunga Kamile jointly with others who were not before the court conspired to defraud Thomas Burton Coleman on diverse dates between April 5, and 26, 2022.
The alleged offence took place within Nairobi County.
The said money was the property of Thomas Burton Coleman the director of Tranz Global Services.
The court heard that the accused person pretended to be in a position to offer Thomas transport services to transport cargo from Belgrade to Malawi a fact he knew to be false.
Mutunga was also faced with a second count of obtaining money by false pretenses contrary to section 313 of the penal code.
The prosecution told the court that the accused obtained a total of Sh 67.5 million from Coleman in April this year with assurance to offer him transport services.
The prosecution further charged him with another count of money laundering.
The court heard that on December 2022 within Nairobi county with intent to unlawfully dispose of monies obtained fraudulently from Thomas Burton Coleman through the bank account number of the accused.
He engaged in a transaction to conceal the said money whilst having reason to believe that the said monies were the proceeds of crime.
He appeared before the Milimani senior principal magistrate Gilbert Shikwe and denied the charges and was released on a bond of Sh 4 million with a surety of the same or alternative cash bail of Sh 800,000.
The matter will be mentioned on November 9, 2023 for pretrial and further directions.
