Woman charged with Sh 22M fraud in Karen land sale

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Evangeline Nyawira Muriuki in a Nairobi court where she denied Sh 22 million land fraud charges and making a false grant of title. PHOTO/Courtesy.

A woman has been charged with Sh 22 million fraud for the purported sale of a piece of land at Karen Brooks, Nairobi.

Evangeline Nyawira Muriuki is accused of defrauding Moses Oring’o Lang’o Sh 22 million at Family Bank, Moi Avenue Branch, through her advocate Bonface Njiru’s clients account by falsely pretending that she was in a position to sell to him the parcel of land LR NO.13726, IR. 79416.

Muriuki is also charged with forging a grant title in order to illegally acquire the 0.2024ha piece of land valued at Sh 50 million.

The court heard that the accused made the false grant with intent to defraud Mary Magdalina Njeri of her parcel of land LR NO.13726. IR 79416.

It is alleged that she committed the offense on or before 16th May 2016 at unknown place, jointly with others not before court.

Muriuki is accused of making the said grant with a second entry being a transfer to herself purporting it to be a genuine transfer registered by Edwin Munoko Wafula, the then land registrar at Nairobi land registry.

In addition, the accused is facing charges of uttering a false document to the police.

She denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Lukas Onyina and was released on a cash bail of Sh 200,000.