Businessman cum Fraudster Peter Gathii Reuben has been charged in court with Sh100M land Fraud.
Gathii was charged before Senior Principal Magistrate Benmark where he denied the charges.
The court heard that the accused person committed the offense on diverse dates between February 21, 2014, and June 23, 2022 at the Nairobi Lands Registry, Arthi House, within Nairobi, jointly with others not before the court willfully and unlawfully and unlawfully procured for yourselves a Land Title registration of land parcel number L.R 209/2389/19 valued at Sh 100M contrary to the law
Fraudster Peter Gathii Reuben
According to the court papers, the land alledgly belonged to the late Bertha Wamina Mugo but he falsely pretended that he was the sole rightful proprietor of the said parcel of land, a fact he knew to be false.
The accused person was charged with another count of conspiracy to defraud by making a false document without Authority against the law.
The court heard that an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, with intent to deceive, without authority or excuse, made a document namely a letter of Allotment for a parcel of land Pangani purporting it to be a genuine letter of allotment issued by the National Land Commission.
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Gathii was also charged with Intermeddling with the property of a deceased person contrary to section 45 (1 ) of the Law of Succession Act.
Furthermore, Peter Gathii Reuben was charged that on October 22, 2015 within Nairobi, jointly with others not before court, without any grant of representation or written law, intermeddled with parcel of land, the property of the late Bertha Wamina Mugo valued at Sh 100,000 by making a false document namely letter of Allotment Pangani for the said land, purporting it to be a genuine letter of allotment issued by the Land Commission.
He was released on a Cash Bail of Sh 3M or a bond of Sh 10 M. The matter will be discussed on October 3, 2024.
