Evangeline Nyawira Muriuki
Evangeline Nyawira Muriuki has been formally charged with fraud amounting to Sh 22 million. The charges stem from her alleged involvement in the fraudulent sale of a piece of land located at Karen Brooks in Nairobi.
According to the court papers, Evangeline Nyawira Muriuki is accused of defrauding Moses Oring’o Lang’o Sh 22 million at Family Bank, Moi Avenue Branch, through her advocate Bonface Njiru’s client account by falsely pretending that she was in a position to sell to him the parcel of land LR NO.13726, IR. 79416.
In court, Muriuki was also charged with forging a grant title to illegally acquire the 0.2024ha piece of land valued at Sh 50 million.
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The court heard that the accused made the false grant with intent to defraud Mary Magdalina Njeri of her parcel of land LR NO.13726. IR 79416.
The court further heard that she committed the offense on or before 16th May 2016 at an unknown place, jointly with others not before the court.
She is accused of making the said grant with a second entry being a transfer to herself purporting it to be a genuine transfer registered by Edwin Munoko Wafula, the then land registrar at Nairobi land registry.
Furthermore, the accused is facing charges of uttering a false document to the police.
She however denied the charges before Chief Magistrate Lukas Onyina and was released on a cash bail of Sh 200,000.
