A Nairobi court has set a case in which Kenyan businessman is charged with conspiracy to defraud a Rwandese national of Sh391 million to be heard in September.
This is after parties in the case failed to reach an agreement to have the matter settled out of court.
The parties appeared before Milimani Principal Magistrate BenMark Ekumbi yesterday where the complainant and the accused persons failed to reach an agreement and asked the court to have the matter heard to it’s completion.
“I wish to say that no negotiations are going on and my client gave an olive branch to the accused person for this matter to go to the DRC on the basis that they were business partners,” lawyer Danstan Omari told the court.
Omari is representing Desire Muhinyuza who is the complainant in the case against the Kenyan businessman, Kirimi Koome.
The prosecution asked the court to have witnesses testify virtually considering that some of them are out of the court’s jurisdiction. Ekhubi directed that the matter be heard on September 19.
In the case, Koome is accused of conspiring to defraud Muhinyuza, the beneficial owner of Stay Online Limited of $2,619,583.27, being merchant funds by falsely representing himself as the owner of the said funds.
He is alleged to have committed the offence on diverse dates between July 10 and October 4, 2023, in Nairobi jointly with others not before court and with intent to defraud. He is out on cash bail.