A court was told that Mr Linturi issued seven post-dated cheques which were returned unpaid by his bank.
A court has given an MP a temporary reprieve by suspending orders demanding him to pay a Sh14.5million loan advanced to him a month before the last general elections.
Commercial court judge Justice Alfred Mabeya allowed a plea by Igembe South MP Franklin Mithika Linturi that he be spared since auctioneers would have descended on his property.