Accountant charged with stealing Sh3.2 million at Harambee House
John Marios Muchiri in a Nairobi court on April 21, 2015 where he was charged with stealing Sh3.2 million from the government. He denied the charge and was released on a Sh900,000 cash bail. PHOTO | PAUL WAWERU | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- The prosecution said Mr John Marios Muchiri conspired with others not before court and siphoned the money between December 1, 2009 and August 24, 2011 through falsified payrolls of non-existent staff purported to have taken loans from a phantom company.
- The suspect also denied a charge of conspiracy stating that between December 2009 and August 2011 in the Office of the President at Harambee House, Nairobi, jointly with others not before court, conspired to defraud the government by means of forging staff payroll to purport they had taken loans.
An accountant at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Harambee House office has been charged with stealing Sh3.2 million from the government.
The prosecution said Mr John Marios Muchiri conspired with others not before court and siphoned the money between December 1, 2009 and August 24, 2011 through falsified payroll records of non-existent staff purported to have taken loans from a phantom company.
He denied that he pretended that the forged payroll records were a genuine credit recovery of Sh3.2 million for Molyn Credit Limited, which had offered loans to staff at the Office of the President.
The suspect also denied a charge of conspiracy stating that between December 2009 and August 2011 in the Office of the President at Harambee House, Nairobi, jointly with others not before court, he conspired to defraud the government by means of forging staff payroll records to purport they had taken loans.
The suspect has been ordered to deposit a cash bail of Sh900,000 or deposit a bond of Sh1.8 million pending a hearing on May 19.
He was also ordered to appear for a mention of the case on May 4 at the Milimani chief magistrate’s court.
