A witness has narrated to court how a 91 year old lawyer Akram Mohamed Khan received Sh63million for purchase of land but never deposited it to the owner.
A retired consultant who was one of the appointment trustee of the late Sukhdev Singh Mangat said Khan after receiving the money, he never deposited to the owner of the land.
“We left with the DCI to pursue Khan to see whether the money would be recovered, Khan was arrested but nothing was recovered from him.”
The witness was appointed as a trustee with another person by the executor Tirpat Mangat in 2020.
He was testifying in a case that Khan and his company M.A Khan Advocates are accused that being an agent of the late Sukhdev Singh Mangat jointly stole Sh63,700,000 the property of the late which had been entrusted to him.
He is alleged to have committed the offence between December 4, 2013 and the 16th of September year 2014, at Habib Bank Limited Koinange Street Branch in Nairobi.
He produced a Power of Attorney in court dated 20th July 2020.
The court was told that the witness went to Kisumu to meet the family of the deceased and the lawyer who was acting for Mangat, one David otieno.
“When we got to Kisumu, we wanted to know the outstanding legal issues on the estate of the deceased. We were briefed on two plots of land that had been sold”, he told court.
For one plot it was sold to Surgit Sigh and Malkit sigh for 63million.
The deposit of 10 percent of money was paid to Khan on March 15th 2014. There was a sale agreement showing the payment of 6.3million was paid to Khan.
He added that a balance of Sh56million was paid by a lawyer acting on behalf of buyer to Khan which was done by Habib bank to Guardian bank.
Khan is out on a bond of Sh1million.
Hearing continues on June 25.
