A businessman has been charged with falsely obtaining a financial benefit of over Sh 36 million from Credit Bank of Kenya.
William Kuria Josiah is charged alongside his company Techspa General Supplies Limited with engaging in organized crime namely falsely obtaining financial benefit of Sh 36,460,366.80 from the said bank, a sum guaranteed by Pamela Namusia Ndobi.
Josiah is alleged to have committed the offense on diverse dates between 30th September 2019 and 20th April 2020 within Nairobi County, jointly with another not before court.
The businessman is also charged with forgery and uttering false documents.
According to the charge sheet, Josiah forged the signature of Ndobi on a letter dated 20th April 2020 from Techspa General Supplies Ltd addressed to the General Manager Finance Department at Kenya Power, purporting that he had genuinely held a meeting with her and agreed that payments for a tender he had serviced at the Kenya Power be made to a certain NCBA bank account number, a fact he knew to be false.
He is also accused of making the false letter to the General Manager Finance Department at Kenya Power purporting to have held the said meeting with Ndobi.
It is alleged that Josiah committed the forgery on 20th April 2020, jointly with another not before court, with intent to deceive.
He denied the charges before Principal Magistrate Rose Ndobi and was granted a bond of Sh 1 million.
