A businessman has been charged with making a document without authority and purporting it to be genuinely issued by the Ministry of Mining.
Kelvin Onyango is accused of making a document namely a Mineral dealer’s (trading) licence for cargocare freight forwarders.
He is also charged with making a similar document for Twinstar freight forwarders, Pivot point freight forwarders, metropolitan express cargo, and generating freight forwarders.
When arraigned on Monday, the prosecution presented alternative charges of forgery to the five counts of making false documents.
“Kevin Otieno Onyango at an unknown place and time within the Republic of Kenya, with an intent to defraud without lawful authority or excuse, made a certain document namely Mineral dealer’s (trading) license registration no. MDL/T DTL/224/533 for generation freight forwarders purporting it to be a genuine document duly issued by the ministry of mining, a fact you knew to be false,” one count reads.
Onyango denied all charges against him.
Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi released him on Sh200,000 cash bail with one contact person and an alternative of Sh300,000 surety bond.
The court directed that the matter will be mentioned on March 6.
