Oil broker charged with Sh1.6 million fraud
A city businessman who allegedly declined to pay for 28, 000 litres of furnace oil worth Sh1,649, 800 has been charged with obtaining goods by false pretenses contrary to section 313 of the penal code.
At the Makadara Law Courts, Solomon Wanyoike was charged with obtaining the oil from Peter Kiruri Muchwe along Enterprise road in Industrial Area in Nairobi on May 20, 2020.
Wanyoike is accused of committing the offence at his Accurate Steel Mills Limited where he allegedly received the oil.
Mr. Muchwe, a petroleum dealer at the Kenya Pipeline company in Industrial Area had met Wanyoike who is an oil broker in the same area in early May of 2020 and the accused person claimed to have a tender to supply furnace oil.
He asked the complainant to deliver the oil to him promising to make payment immediately after the delivery.
The complainant delivered the oil on May 20 of that year. He was not paid but left with promises that he would be paid. He made numerous claims for payment but was not paid.
He later made a payment deal with the accused person which Wanyoike did not honour prompting him to report the matter at the Industrial Area police station where the matter was investigated before the suspect was arrested.
Wanyoike denied the charges before Principal Magistrate Gathogo Sogomo.
He was released on bond of Sh500, 000 and an alternative cash bail of Sh200, 000.
The case will be mentioned on November 22 before hearing starts on March 28 next year.
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