A Man has been charged with land fraud worth 350M.
Sammy Louis Karanja has denied the charges before magistrate Ondieki of Milimani law courts.
The accused is said to have conspired with others not before court to defraud Hasmita Patel T/A Holloway Properties Limited of a parcel of land LR measuring 1.591 Hectares situated along Mombasa Road within Nairobi County valued at Sh 350,000,000 by forging a Grant dated Nov 23/2001 purporting it to be a genuine Grant.
He faced another count of forgery against the law.
Lous was charged with forging the signature of a commissioner of land on a certain document namely Grant dated November 23, 2001 purporting it to be genuine grant signed and issued by Jane Kanja knowing it was not true.
The accused was also charged with forging a signature of Jane Kanja,a commissioner of lands on a certain document known as Grant.
He said to have purported it to be a genuine grant issued by the ministry of lands at Arthi House knowing it was untrue.
He was also charged in the last count with the obtaining money by force preferences against the law .
The court was informed that on November 10, 2023 within the country jointly with others not before court,with intent to defraud he obtained shillings 12 million from Onda concrete by firstly, pretending that he was able to lease for them a parcel of land, knowing it was untrue.
He was released on Sh 50M bond or a cash bail of Sh 10M.
pretrial will be on June 23/2025.
