This archive report was first published on 16 July 2019.
On May 29th, 2018, a brazen scam unfolded at Jamii Bora Bank in Mombasa County, where three individuals allegedly defrauded the bank of Ksh 12 million by presenting fake documents.
The accused, Patrick Musyimi, Christopher Khamisi, and Joel Karani, appeared before Mombasa Magistrate Edgar Kagoni and pleaded not guilty to the charges of obtaining money by false pretense.
According to the charge sheet, the trio duped the bank authority by presenting a fake doctored bill of lending number MSCUQ5953347, purporting to be an original document from Maritime Shipping Company.
Patrick Musyimi, an employee of Maritime Shipping Company in Mombasa, Joel Karani, a cyber-expert who authored the fake lending bill, and Christopher Khamisi, an employee of Jamii Bora Bank's Mombasa branch, are accused of working together to perpetrate the scam.
The hearing of the case will kick off on August 6th, where the prosecution has lined up seven witnesses.
