A man has been charged at the Milimani Law Courts over an alleged plot to steal from Equity Bank by duplicating user profiles in the bank’s computer system.
Ian Muhia Maina appeared before Milimani Magistrate Daisy Mutai on Friday, October 23, 2026, where he denied all the charges brought against him.
Maina faces a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony, namely attempted stealing by servant, contrary to the law. He is accused of, on diverse dates between May 2026 and October 21, 2026, jointly with others not before the court, conspiring to commit the alleged offence by duplicating Finacle user profiles VM53601 and BC23924 in the Equity Bank (K) Limited banking system.
He also faces a charge of attempted stealing by servant contrary to Section 281 as read with Section 389 of the Penal Code. The prosecution alleges that Maina and others duplicated the two Finacle user profiles in the bank’s system with the intention of stealing from the financial institution.
Maina further faces a charge of unauthorised access contrary to Section 14(1) of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act.
The prosecution alleges that between May 2026 and October 21, 2026, he secured unauthorised access to a computer system belonging to Equity Bank by duplicating the two Finacle user profiles, allegedly with the intention of committing theft.
Maina denied all the charges against him.Magistrate Daisy Mutai released him on a bond of Sh600,000 or a cash bail of Sh200,000.
