Lawyer Scandal Lawyer Jackson Mukaria Muriungi is now feared by clients over Fraud, this is our take, When you are a friend of the court, you need to know the kind of an advocate you are dealing with.
The Law Spectacle today unravels a prominent Meru-based lawyer who allegedly colluded with a mechanic to defraud Millions and has since been charged with three counts of alleged forgery and conspiracy to defraud a businessman of land valued at Sh4 million.
Our information and probe from the DCI indicate that lawyer Jackson Mukaria Muriungi forged a letter of consent for a change of ownership of the said plot to read Hudson Mutugi Francis to defraud Sh4M.
Muriungi was an employee of the Meru County government at the time. A few months ago, the advocate and his accomplice pleaded not guilty before Meru Chief Magistrate Dominica Nyambu.
The two were charged with conspiracy to defraud contrary to section 317 of the penal code, forgery contrary to section 349 (d) of the penal code, and making a document without authority contrary to section 357(a) of the penal code.
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He then allegedly made the said fraudulent letter, purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, housing, Urban Development, and Public Works, Meru.
The former civil servant then allegedly pretended Mutugi had been allocated the parcel of land from the said ministry, and attempted to defraud the businessman of the plot.
This is said to have happened on diverse dates between March 5 1997 and August 4, 2015. Lawyer Thuranira Atheru represented Muriungi. He was released with Sh500,000 cash bail or surety of Sh1 million.
Due to the above information, we urge the public to desist from blindly embracing his services, and if at all they do, let them do so with a lot of caution
