A city businessman alleged to be a serial fraudster who has been on the run from the law for a while was on Monday charged with fraud.
Billy Mogire Monyancha was arraigned before magistrate Gilbert Shikwe after he was arrested on Friday by police enforcing a warrant of arrest.
According to reports, Mogire was arrested sometime last year and released on police bail but he never showed up to court to take plea as had been directed.
On December 27 when the matter was mentioned before court, he was a no show and the court issued a warrant of arrest against him.
In the case, the prosecution claimed that on March 31,2023 at Nairobi CBD, with intent to defraud, obtained Sh 251,000 from Jossnad Agencies by falsely pretending he was in a position to supply 14 pieces of laptops, 14 pieces pf Usb to Vga converters, 14 pieces of Microsoft Office 2019 pro, 14 pieces of Kaspersky 2023 antivirus and 3 pieces of Foam Clean.
He denied the charged and pleaded with the court to release him on reasonable bail terms.
However, the state opposed his release on bail pleading with the court to deny him bond and or bail saying that he had successfully demonstrated that he ccould not abide by the court orders and he has no respect to court summons.
The court detained him until January 10 when it will issue a ruling on bail to determine whether he will be granted bail or not.
According to police sources, Mogire has been pretending to be well-connected with powerful people in the Government in a bid to dupe unsuspecting people.
