An application by a complainant in Politician Francis Mureithi’s Sh 300M fraud case,to have presiding magistrate recuse himself has been rejected.
The complainant had sought to have the presiding magistrate Robinson Ondieki recuse himself from the case saying that it has never kicked off since 2016.
When the matter came for ruling,the magistrate declined to recuse himself from the matter.
In the case,they are said to have defrauded an Eritrean Sh300m between April and November 2016.
Mureithi is said to have told the complainant, Haile Menkerios, that he would help him secure a tender at the Department of Defence (DoD) headquarters for the supply of foodstuff.
According to the DCI, Mureithi issued the foreigner with a Local Purchase Order (LPO) to supply sugar, maize, rice and beans to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
As a result, Mureithi, through his company Doc Find Ltd, together with other proxy companies obtained a total of Sh300 million.
The other companies have been identified as Wina Trading Ltd, New Research Path Company, Hammond Agencies and Sembel Trading.
The money was wired to the companies’ accounts on diverse dates between April 29 and November 3, 2016, by Menkerios who is a retired Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UN office of the Africa Union in Addis Ababa.
“We launched investigations and established that the complainant was indeed swindled of the cash on the pretext that he was able to secure more contracts,” Chebii said.
