Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo summoned in Sh50m fraud case

Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo during prayers for Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua arap Sang on October 18, 2015. The High Court has temporarily halted the prosecution of Mr Jirongo in a fraud case. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

What you need to know:

  • Second charge: The former Lugari MP is accused of giving false information regarding Mr Jonathan Moi in the fraud case.

  • Third charge: Mr Jirongo is accused of making a document “with intent to defraud”.

  • Fourth charge: Mr Jirongo is accused of presenting an alleged fraudulent document to a credit manager at Postbank Credit Limited.

Former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo has been summoned to court to answer to charges in a Sh50 million fraud case in which former President Moi’s son was implicated as an accomplice.

Nairobi chief magistrate Daniel Ogembo on Monday signed the order requiring Mr Jirongo to appear personally in court on Friday, February 12.

The former Youth for Kanu ’92 (YK’92) chairman is accused of giving false information, forging land documents and obtaining “execution of security” by false pretences.

The prosecution says that on September 25, 1992 in Nairobi, Mr Jirongo induced Postbank Credit Limited to accept a bank charge in respect of LR NO 209/11151-IR 47029 registered in the name of Soy Developers Limited to secure an overdraft facility of Sh50 million to Cyber Project International as valuable security.

He is also accused of giving false information regarding Mr Jonathan Moi in the fraud case.

It is alleged that Mr Jirongo on March 27, 2015 at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters in Nairobi told Sergeant Maxwell Otieno that he paid Sh7 million to Mr Moi as a balance of payment for the purchase of Soy Developers Limited “which information he knew or believed to be false, intending thereby to cause the police officer to arrest Mr Jonathan Moi as an accomplice in the alleged fraudulent purchase of the company which he ought not to have done if the true state of facts were known to him.”

'FORGED BANK CHARGE'

The former legislator is also accused of making a document “with intent to defraud”.

The prosecution says he forged a bank charge in respect of the plot in question purported to have been signed by Mr Sammy Boit Kogo.

A fourth charge against the businessman-cum-politician states that on September 25, 1992 in Nairobi he presented a fraudulent document to a credit manager at Postbank Credit Limited purported to have been signed by Mr Kogo and Mr Davy Koech.

Mr Kogo is listed as the first prosecution witness with others to be stated later.

The case is filed at the criminal registry at the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi.