On Thursday, three individuals accused of gold fraud were arraigned at the Milimani Law Court, facing new charges in a consolidated chargesheet for allegedly acquiring over 343 million Kenyan shillings by deceitfully claiming they could supply gold valued at 142 kilograms.

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 who released them on the previous bond terms that were given to them by the previous courts.

Through their lawyer Danstan Omari,the three told the court that they have been supplied with the witness statements by the state ahead of the hearing and the determination of the case.

“We can confirm that we have received all the documents from the state in regards to this matter.”Said Omari

Omari who also applied for the released of the passport of the second accused person was however rejected 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 hounarable 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 chargesheet,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.

A man who alledgly threatened to expose Kakamega governor Fenandez  Barasa’s nudes and demanded a total of Sh240M has been charged at a Kibera Court.

Mr.William Simiyu Matere alias Elijah was charged before Chief Magistrate Ann Mwangi where he denied the charges.

The court heard that the accused person with others not before the court conspired to defraud to commit a Felony and demanded property with Menace and extorted the governor.

According to our insiders who are aware of the matter, the accused persons had some nude photos of the governor and used them to extort him contrary to the law.

Before he was charged in court , the police had obtained custodial orders from the same court so that they could complete their investigations.

He denied the charges and was released on bond