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Jared Otieno, the flamboyant headline-making businessman and politician was arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Mutuku on Wednesday.
Mr Otieno was arraigned on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences contrary to section 313 of the penal code.
Two counts of the charge have revealed the names of people he allegedly defrauded by falsely pretending that he was in a position to ship gold from JKIA to Lebanon and Kuwait.
“Jared Kiasa Otieno alias Jared Otieno alias Jared Smith Otieno alias Richard Otieno alias Jared Smith Mackenzie Otieno on diverse dates between 4th day of October, 2015 and 31st day of October, 2016 in Nairobi City County, with intent to defraud, jointly with others not before the court, you obtained from Mustaq Hafeji, a sum of 169, 000 US Dollars (Ksh17.5million) by falsely pretending that you were in a position to ship 50kgs of gold from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi to Kuwait International Airport in the Republic of Kuwait, a fact you knew to be false,” reads one count of the charge.
Another reads: “Jared Kiasa Otieno alias Jared Otieno alias Jared Smith Otieno alias Richard Otieno alias Jared Smith Mackenzie Otieno on diverse dates between 2nd day of June, 2017 and 13th day of June, 2017 in Nairobi City County, with intent of fraud from Muhammad Imad Mokdad, a sum of 45, 000 Euros (Ksh5.2 million) by falsely pretending that you were in a position to ship 50kgs of gold from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi to Beirut City in the Republic of Lebanon, a fact you knew to be false.”
Mr Otieno pleaded not guilty to the Ksh22.7 million fraud charges was released on a Ksh3 million bond or an alternative cash bail of Ksh500, 000.
The embattled businessman from the lakeside town of Ndhiwa, Homa Bay County, was arrested on June 17 following complaints by several people of varying nationalities that he had been obtaining money by false pretenses.
He was detained at Kilimani Police Station for a week over allegations of obtaining Sh 183 Million.
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