News
How An Accountant Defrauded Sh200M From a Logistics Company and Temporarily Went Into Hiding
An accountant accused of conspiring with four others to steal over Ksh 200 million from four logistics companies based in Mombasa was charged with multiple counts of fraud on Wednesday.
Robert Wangila Wandera appeared before Principal Magistrate Gladys Ollimo, where he faced numerous charges, including conspiracy to defraud, stealing by servant, and false accounting. Additional charges against Wandera included forgery, uttering a false document, providing false information to public servants, and money laundering.
The prosecution alleges that Wandera stole Ksh 200,585,052 from Igsar Group Company Limited, Husaaba Trading Company Limited, Sunova International Limited, and Inland Logistics.
The court heard that the accused, in collaboration with others not yet before the court, conspired to defraud the four firms by fraudulently withdrawing cash from Absa Bank Kenya Limited account number 2039703583 using Bwanyange Company Limited cheques.
Further testimony revealed that Wandera falsified accounts by making fake entries into the companies’ books to suggest that Bwanyange Limited had paid over Ksh 200 million to the four companies for goods, forex trading remittances, and other transactions.
Wandera is also accused of forging the signature of Thomas Evans Huntly on a letter of acceptance dated May 20, 2020, falsely indicating Huntly’s acceptance as a director of Bwanyange Company Limited.
Additionally, Wandera allegedly presented forged minutes of Bwanyange Limited, purportedly signed by Thomas Evans Huntly, which were submitted using the E-Citizen account of Anderson Kombe Hare.
Wandera denied all the charges and was released on a Ksh 2.5 million bond with a surety of a similar amount.
The court has also summoned two other suspects, Alex Mutemi Mwenga and Barnabas Agar, to face the same charges.
Two additional suspects, Pavan Kentan Ramji Shah and Anderson Kombe Hare, were charged two months ago with the same offenses. Their cases will be consolidated into a single file once all suspects have entered their pleas, as the charges are similar.
Kenya Insights allows guest blogging, if you want to be published on Kenya’s most authoritative and accurate blog, have an expose, news TIPS, story angles, human interest stories, drop us an email on [email protected] or via Telegram
Safaricom CEO Peter Ndegwa’s Tenure Controversially Extended: A Record Defined by Apologies, Denials and Corporate Opacity
THE FUEL CABAL: How Mohamed Jaffer, a KPC Insider, and a Ministry Official Are Alleged to Have Manufactured Kenya’s Worst Petroleum Crisis in Three Years, While Kenyans Burned
Sugar Empire in the Dock: How Kibos’s Mombasa Refinery Landed 1,481 Phantom Tonnes at the Port — and Why Nine Government Agencies Are Now Watching Its Every Move
G-to-G Deal Fails To Cushion Kenyans As Country Stares At Adulterated Fuel After Hiked Prices
Getting Away With It: How Kenya’s Most Politically Connected Fuel Company Gulf Energy Is Pocketing Billions While Rival Firms Face Public Wrath
The Great Vanishing Act: Odinga Family Moves Be Energy Millions to Secret Tax Haven
Kenyan Motorists Stare At Possible Engine Damage And Heavy Losses As Report Confirms Substandard Fuel In Circulation
Best Betting Sites in Kenya for 2026
How Safaricom Could Sell You Out To KRA
A Case That Refuses To Die: EABL Stake Sale Faces Fresh Challenge After Temporary Reprieve
Forged Legacy: How Kaplan and Stratton’s Peter Gachuhi Is Accused of Faking a Top AG’s Will as State Claims Damning Evidence
THE HANDSHAKE THAT BECAME A NOOSE: How Tuju’s Alleged Intimate Access to EADB’s Yeda Apopo Produced a Sh294 Million Deal With No Written Contract, and Why That Trust Destroyed an Empire
Sold And Abandoned: How Diageo and Asahi Are Locking Kenya’s EABL Minority Shareholders Out Of East Africa’s Biggest Corporate Heist
Poison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
How Firm Linked To Mombasa Tycoon Jaffer Was Allowed To Import Fuel At Bloated Price And Set To Make Billions In Profits From Iranian War Crisis In Kenya
THE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
The Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
Inside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
The Debt They Would Not Pay: How Standard Group Ducked Sh50 Million In Regulatory Fee For Years, Then Called It A Witch-Hunt
Men Linked to Akasha Drug Dynasty Charged With Death Threats and Assault at Nairobi Nightclub
-
Business2 weeks agoPoison at the Pump: How Kenya’s Fuel Marking System May Be Exposing Millions to Cancer-Causing Chemicals
-
Investigations2 weeks agoTHE ZAKHEM-ECOBANK MACHINE: How Kenya’s Courts Were Weaponised to Drain a State Corporation of Over KES 78 Billion
-
Investigations1 week agoThe Teflon Company: How Gulf Energy’s Insiders Built Billions on Kenya’s Fuel, and Walked Away Clean
-
Investigations1 week agoInside Details Of Sh78 Billion Fraud in KPC’s Mombasa-Nairobi Line 5 Pipeline Project That Has Continued To Bleed The Country
-
News1 week agoMombasa Lawyer Exposed In Sh600 Million Alleged Double-Dealing Diani Property Transaction
-
Business1 week agoWattanga Fired Over Incompetence in Tech, Insiders Say
-
Investigations2 weeks agoWho Architected the Ksh 4.8 Billion Fuel Scandal? Two CSs Now Caught in the Storm
-
News1 week agoThe Lawyer at the Centre of Kenya’s State Machine: Eric Gumbo, the AG’s Bypassed Office, and the Half-Billion-Shilling Question