Businessman Chris Obure charged with forging Senteu Plaza sale agreement
Businessman Chrisantus Philip Okeyo Obure, popularly known as Chris Obure faces four criminal charges.
Businessman Chrisantus Philip Okeyo Obure, popularly known as Chris Obure, has been charged with forging an agreement for the sale of Senteu Plaza, a building in Nairobi County.
Mr Obure on Tuesday, January 28, faced four counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, forgery, and uttering of forged documents.
The accused, who denied the four criminal charges before a Milimani Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi, was released on a bond of Sh500,000 with an alternative cash bail of Sh200,000.
The prosecution told the court that Mr Obure committed the offences between June 12, 2017 and October 9, 2023, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others who were not before the court.
At the same time, he was charged with forging a Binding Board Resolution purporting it had been signed and stamped by Chandul Shah, a director of AC and Others Ltd.
The court also heard that on February 10, 2024, at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, he knowingly and fraudulently uttered a forged binding board resolution purporting it to have been stamped and signed by Chandul Shah Director of the AC and Others Ltd.
He was further charged with giving false information to a person employed in public service contrary to section 129 (a) of the Penal Code.
The charge stated on February 9, 2024, at the DCI headquarters, Obure informed Geoffrey Ndatho, a police officer, that he had an agreement for the sale of Senteu Plaza with the Directors of AC and Others Ltd based on a binding board resolution.
The agreement allegedly bore a purported official stamp, information that Obure knew to be false and likely to cause the said police officer to act on the false information against the interest of justice.
A prosecuting counsel Wanjiru Waweru told the magistrate she had no instructions to oppose the release of the accused on bond.
Defence lawyer PLO Lumumba urged the court to release the accused on reasonable and lenient bond terms, stating that the accused would adhere to the terms imposed by the court.
In her ruling, Ms Shitubi observed that the prosecution did not oppose the accused being released on bond.
She added that bail is a constitutional right unless compelling reasons to deny the same are advanced to the court.
"I have considered the submissions by the defence and note that the prosecution is not opposed to the grant of bond," Ms Shitubi stated.
She proceeded to release him on bond of Sh 500,000 with a surety of a similar amount with an alternative cash bail of Sh 200,000 with a contact person.
She directed the case to be mentioned on February 12 for pre-trial directions.
