A businessman was Tuesday arraigned before a Narok court charged with conspiring to steal 370 671 US Dollars. (31.9 million shillings) from Narok county government.nNicodemus Khayeli Irangi is alleged to have conspired to forge
bank documents belonging to Eco- bank and used them to steal the money belonging to Narok county government suspected to be part of revenue collected at Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
He appeared before the new Narok Chief Magistrate, Ms. Wilbroda Juma charged with committing the offence on May 31st, 2012 at an unknown place in Kenya.
He faced another charge of stealing the said money on diverse dates between January 29th, 2013 and February 20th 2014 at Eco- bank in Nairobi.
Mr. Khayeli also faced an alternative count of handling the said stolen monies in his account at Eco bank in Nairobi. Khayeli is facing similar charges in three different files which are pending before Narok Law Courts where he and others are alleged to have hatched a scheme to siphon revenue collected from Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
In this latest case, he was not required to plead as the prosecution applied to defer the plea and remand the accused at Narok Police Station for seven days in order to help with investigations which are incomplete.
Narok county senior state counsel, Mr. Evans Gitonga told the court that the accused was only arrested on Monday this week when he came to court to attend a mention in one of the several fraud cases facing him and therefore investigations into the case were not complete and the anti- banking fraud investigators from Nairobi were waiting to question him.
The accused, through his lawyer Joseph Lel put up a spirited opposition to this application but the prosecution carried the day after the court ordered that Khayeli be remanded at Narok Police Station for three days. The case will be mentioned on Friday May 15th when the accused can plead to these new charges.
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