Three alleged gold fraudsters were today charged a fresh at Milimani law court, in a consolidated charge sheet, for obtaining over Ksh 343 million by falsely pretending that they were in a position of supplying 142Kgs of pure gold.
The three Frank David Kateti, Alain Mwandia Nvita Lukusa and Daniel Otieno Ogot pleaded not guilty of all the four counts before Milimani magistrate Wendy Nyamu.
The three accused persons through their Lawyer Danstan Omari applied for the released of the passport of the second accused person which has so far been detained by the police, an application opposed by the state.
According to Omari there was no order in the previous court that directed that the passport be detained.
“The passport of the second accused person is in the hand of the police, there was no order from previous court to detain the passport, we are therefore asking this honorable to have the said passport be released for the purpose of traveling.” Said Omari.
According to the state, the passport is to secure the attendance of the accused persons in court, he can however seek the leave of the court to have his passport released whenever he wants to travel.
According to the charge sheet, one Frank David Kateti, Alain Mwadia Nvita Lukusa and Daniel Otieno Ogot, that on diverse date between February 5th 2024 and 13th June 2024 at Nairobi city county, within the Republic of Kenya jointly with others not before court conspire to commit a felony namely stealing a sum of million 341,931,276.107 and 2,018,016 from Asianic limited by falsely pretending that you were in a position to sell 142 kg of gold to the said Asianic limited the fact you knew to be fault.
Four witnesses have been lined up to testify the matter will be coming up mention on 7th of October 2024.
