Sh 7.2M company theft? This is why Pecina Aduma Onyango, Caroline Akinyi Ouma, and Margaret Wanjiku Ruguru were arraigned in court. A reliable witness has told a Nairobi Court Court how three women were charged with stealing alcoholic stock worth Sh7.2 million.
The witness testified that the accused person used a foreign Mpesa account to divert the cash ” They had a different number to which any of my clients who visited the shop would direct the payments. This led to a lot of losses in our shops and they later disappeared after their plans were discovered,” a witness told the court.
Pecina Aduma Onyango, Caroline Akinyi Ouma, and Margaret Wanjiku Ruguru were arraigned in court
The court heard how they planned and how they shared the proceeds of the crime among themselves until the last day when a customer revealed the matter to the management. They later went into hiding after the matter was reported to the police and they were tracked down by the DCI.
The three accused persons; Pecina Aduma Onyango, Caroline Akinyi Ouma, and Margaret Wanjiku Ruguru were charged before Kibera Senior Principal Magistrate Margret Murage where they denied the charges.
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The court heard that the three accused persons jointly stole the cash meant for alcoholic drinks worth Sh7,233,919. According to the charge sheet presented before the court, the accused persons committed the offense on diverse dates between January 1 and August 13 at an unknown time at Highbury Liquor Shop.
The court heard that they had been employed at the shop located along 14 Riverside Drive in Kileleshwa for years and they allegedly used the existing trust to steal. Highbury Liquor Shop is the complainant in the case and its senior-most official has so far testified in court.
They earlier denied the charges and the magistrate had released them on a Sh2 million bond with a cash bail of Sh200, 000 cash bail with the surety of a similar account…
