Robert Wangila Wandera, one of five accountants accused of conspiring to embezzle over Ksh. 200 million from four logistics companies, has been charged before a Mombasa court.
Wandera appeared before Principal Magistrate Hon. Gladys Ollimo, facing multiple charges including conspiracy to defraud, stealing by servant, false accounting, forgery, uttering a false document, giving false information to a person employed in public service, and money laundering.
The charges allege that Wandera, alongside others not yet before the court, orchestrated a scheme to defraud Igsar Group Company Limited, Husaaba Trading Company Limited, Sunova International Limited, and Inland Logistics.
The scheme involved fraudulent withdrawals from an Absa Bank Kenya Limited account (number 2039703583) using cheques from Bwanyange Company Limited.
Wandera, who was employed as an accountant at the affected firms, is accused of falsifying accounting records to reflect fictitious payments from Bwanyange Limited totaling over Ksh. 200 million.
These false entries were made to cover up the misappropriated funds, purportedly for goods, forex trading remittances, and other transactions.
Further allegations include forging the signature of Thomas Evans Huntly on a letter dated May 20, 2020, purportedly accepting him as a director of Bwanyange Company Limited.
Wandera is also accused of using the E-Citizen account of Anderson Kombe Hare to submit forged minutes of Bwanyange Limited and providing false information to Business Registration Officer Ann Kanake.
In addition, Wandera faces charges of money laundering related to the unlawful disposal of Ksh. 200,585,052.00 suspected to be stolen from the four logistics firms.
The accused denied all charges and has been released on a Ksh. 2.5 million bond with a surety of the same amount.
The court has also summoned co-accused Alex Mutemi Mwenga and Barnabas Agar to face the charges.
Two other suspects, Pavan Kentan Ramji Shah and Anderson Kombe Hare, were charged two months ago.