Kenyan lawyer Stephen Juma Ndeda has continued pulling serious shocks with fraud allegations, as Kenyan mainstream media continue to grant him “a good blackout”.
For instance, his Makadara Law Courts case, where he had been charged with threatening to kill a security guard and causing malicious property damage, was closed, and no single media house managed to air it.
According to an insider aware of the matter, money exchanged hands and led to the termination of his case.
In yet another fraud case that the one-time bright Kenyan advocate has faced. The fraud involved USD 195,000.
The advocate has not been featured in any mainstream media, even as the complainant continues suffering in a foreign land. According to the multiple investigations, lawyer Stephe Juma Ndeda has mastered the art of talking well to some communication experts who have managed to protect him from negative publicity. However, he has denied all the wrong allegations in the court of law, and he remains innocent until proven guilty.
Other reports implicated the advocate in a case in which one of his junior employees was attacked by goons, beaten up, and left in a coma. The goons were allegedly looking for the advocate, but fortunately, he was still out of the country.
To another disturbing lawyer, Stephen Juma Ndeda has been charged with criminal offences ranging from fraud to money laundering in a Sh352 million fraud. The case is active at the Kahawa Law courts, and he has since denied the charges.
According to the charge sheet, Stephen Juma Ndeda has been arraigned before the Chief Magistrate’s Court at Kahawa to face charges of forgery, uttering forged documents, and money laundering.
This comes after thorough investigations were conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, which received an intelligence report on June 26th, 2023, linking the advocate to have committed the mentioned offences on diverse dates in June 2020.
The investigations conducted by detectives from the Financial Investigations Unit domiciled at the DCI Headquarters revealed that the advocate’s law firm Ndeda & Company received a total of USD 52,490,000 through wired transfers in the name of payment for the purchase of land. This transaction was supported by a sale agreement between Andrew Simiyu (Vendor) and Alguns Limited (Purchaser) relating to a 50-acre parcel of land in Kajiado County. As per the agreement, Ndeda & Company was stated to be acting on behalf of both the Vendor and the purchaser where the vendor had agreed to sell the property for a price of Sh60,000,000, with Sh5,000,000 being the initial deposit to be paid within 90 days.
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It was also established that, according to the agreement, the purchaser was Alguns Limited. However, the funds were sent by a different entity in the name of Algans Eood whose located address is in Sofia Bulgaria. It was further established that Algun Limited is a company whose main business is arms trading, a fact which led to suspicion of an international syndicate of money laundering and possible arms smuggling.
