Stephen Juma Ndeda, a city lawyer, has been charged with money laundering, forgery, and uttering forged documents in violation of the law. Ndeda was charged yesterday before Kahawa Law Courts Senior Principal Magistrate Boaz Ombewa at the Kahawa Law Courts, where he denied charges and pleaded for lenient bond terms.
The court heard that he committed the offence on June 20, 2023, at UBA Kenya Bank Limited Upper Hill Branch Nairobi, with the intent to dispose of monies received from a Bulgarian Algans Eood company engaged in a transaction to conceal an amount of USD 52,490 (equivalent to Sh 6,797,455), a fact he knew to be false.
The court heard that the embattled advocate received the money through account number 55030130004234 in his law firm, Ndeda & Company Advocates,, while having reasons to believe that the said monies were proceeds of crime and processed them.
The court further heard that on 20th June 2023, at UBA Kenya Bank Upper Hill Branch Nairobi, he knowingly and fraudulently uttered to Calvins Gwaro Nyamwange a forged sale agreement for Land Parcel number
KJD/KEEKONYOKIE/ILKISUMET/3371. This is by purporting the sale agreement as a genuine sale agreement signed by Andrew Immanuel Simuyu as a vendor to defraud. The advocate is further accused in court having, on or about 14th June 2023, at Ndeda & Company Advocates office situated at View Park Towers in Nairobi CBD,
with intent to defraud a forged Sale Agreement for Land Parcel Number KJD/KEEKONYOKIE/ILKISUMET/3371 between Andrew Immanuel Simiyu as the vendor and Alguns Limited as the purchaser, purporting it to be a genuine Sale Agreement signed by Andrew Immanuel Simiyu as the vendor.
The magistrate released him on a bond of Sh1 million or cash bail of Sh200,000 and directed that the matter be mentioned this month for further directions.
