Stephen Juma Ndeda
Famous city lawyer Stephen Juma Ndeda cum fraudster, was yesterday charged with money laundering, forgery, and uttering forged documents contrary to the law
Mr. Ndeda was charged yesterday before Kahawa Law Courts Senior Principal Magistrate Boaz Ombewa at the Kahawa Law Courts, where he denied the charges and pleaded for a lenient bond term.
According to the court papers, it heard that he committed the offence on the 20th of June, 2023, at UBA Kenya Bank Limited Upper Hill Branch, Nairobi, with the intent to dispose of monies received from a Bulgaria 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 that on or about 14th June 2023, at Ndeda & Company Advocates’ office situated at View Park Towers in Nairobi CBD, with the intent to defraud, he forged a 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 further this month for further directions
