Former Garsen Member of Parliament Danson Mungatana and co-accused Collins Waweru were charged Wednesday, with conspiracy to defraud a businesswoman of Sh1 million.
The woman accused the two of obtaining the money from her so as to assist her secure a Sh70 million supplies tender at the Military Headquarters.
A lawyer representing them had on Tuesday told a Magistrate’s court to drop the charges because they had initiated an out of court settlement with the complainant, but the prosecution said the offence committed was criminal in nature.
The two were subsequently arraigned at the Kibera Law Court in Nairobi, before Chief Magistrate Abdul Lorot, where they denied charges of conspiracy to defraud woman Sh1 million.
They were freed on Sh200,000 cash bail each and the pre-trial set for September 10.
Court documents show that the offence was committed on August 3 at Sagret Hotel where they are accused of having received the money and gave the complainant some tender documents for the supply of foodstuff which were later found to be fake.
“The Ministry of Defence is involved as a complainant. Inasmuch as they want to reconcile with the complainants, most of the charges are by the State. This is a matter of public interest,” Prosecutor Nancy Kerubo said yesterday.
According to the charge sheet, they obtained the money from Ann Wairimu Thumi and Cynthia Muthoni Kamau with intent to defraud.
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They allegedly obtained Sh930,000 from Ms Kamau by falsifying Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) and letters of acknowledgement for expression of interest for supply of dry food stuff in favour of Beni Trading Company.
The letters were signed by one C.K Mundui and were purported to have been issued by the Ministry of Defence Ulinzi house, the charge sheet indicates.
Other forged LPOs were purported to have been signed by the chairman of the ministerial tender committee, Ministry of Defence, a fact the accused persons knew to be false or untrue.
They allegedly obtained the second amount of Sh930,000 from Ms Thumi after they pretended that they were in a position to assist her win a tender for supplying foodstuff and construction material to the Department of Defence.
