By FRED MAKANA
Nairobi, Kenya: A Chinese has been charged in a Nairobi court with obtaining over Sh 4.4 million from a local company by false pretense.
The Nairobi Senior Principal Magistrate Melissa Opondo heard that the accused Caixian Xiong on November 5 last year and January 4 within Nairobi County jointly with another not before court obtained sh 4.4million from Magolink X-Press Distributors limited by falsely pretending that they were in a position to import blankets on behalf of the company, a fact she knew to be false.
The accused pleaded not guilty to the charges, and was ordered to deposit a cash bail of Sh 500,000 and a surety of Sh 1 million.
The case is set to be heard on June 4.
