A woman has appeared before the Milimani Law Courts facing a series of charges arising from an alleged scheme to unlawfully transfer ownership of motor vehicles through the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) platform.
Leah Muthoni Kiongo was charged with forgery, obtaining registration documents by deception and unauthorized interference with a computer system.
Court documents indicate that investigators accuse Kiongo and other individuals not before the court of preparing and using fraudulent documents in May 2021 to facilitate the transfer of ownership of motor vehicles registration numbers KBS 771E and KBK 391B.
The prosecution alleges that the documents included affidavits purportedly used to alter a mobile phone number linked to NTSA records. The documents were allegedly presented as genuine and used to process changes affecting the ownership of the vehicles, which were registered under Stephen Kiongo Karuku.
In another charge, Kiongo is accused of unlawfully obtaining vehicle registration certificates by allegedly making false representations regarding the authenticity and issuance of the documents.
She is also facing charges under the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act. Prosecutors claim that she gained access to the NTSA system without authority, circumvented security safeguards and tampered with vehicle ownership information. The alleged alterations resulted in changes to records relating to the ownership of the two motor vehicles.
The accused was taken into custody on June 9, 2026, before being presented in court the following day to answer to the charges.
