Nairobi trader Barnabas Kiprono in court for fraud
A trader has been charged with fraudulently obtaining Sh15million in a fake medical kits deal.
Barnabas Kiprono was accused of fraudulently obtaining the money through his company Amara BB from Ollyvian Agencies by falsely pretending that he was in a position to supply micro cuvettes (medical kits) a fact he knew to be false.
He allegedly committed the offence on dates between April 1 and May 19, 2022 within the Republic of Kenya.
Kiprono was charged with a second count of forging a Kenya Bureau of Standards local Coc purporting it to be genuine issued by the Kenya bureau of standards.
He is said to have committed the offence on May 17, 2022 at unknown place.
He is further charged that with intent to defraud, without lawful authority or excuse, he made a false document namely a KEBS local Coc purporting it to be genuine.
The court heard that Kiprono also fraudulently uttered a forged KEBS local Coc to be issued by the Kenya Bureau of Standards.
The accused who appeared in court through a warrant of arrest denied the charges before Milimani senior principal magistrate Benard Ochoi.
He pleaded with the court for lenient bond terms stating that his police cash bail was forfeited to the State.
The magistrate released Kiprono on a cash bail of Sh400, 000 or a bond of Sh2 million.
The case will be mentioned after two weeks.