Three Pakistanis have been charged in a Nairobi court with conspiracy to obtain Sh113.6 million by false pretenses.

Ebrahim Ahmed Ebrahim, Abdul Razak Rehan and Mohamed Amin Suleiman were charged that between December 4, 2023 and June 6, 2024 jointly with others, conspired to steal the money from Shahzada Aniq Ayub by falsely pretending they were in a position to secure him a Kenyan work permit.

The court heard that they also pretended to be in a position to secure a scrap metal dealer’s licence and supply the complainant with 1,100 tonnes of the material and used batteries.

Licence forged

The suspects obtained a total of Sh113,650,256, prosecutors allege.

Separately, Rehan was charged with forging a scrap metal dealer’s licence (number 326868B957), purporting it to be a genuine document issued by the Scrap Metal Council under the State Department of Industry.

They denied the charges before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Nanzushi.
Their defence lawyer sought lenient bond terms, saying the suspects are businessmen who are in Kenya legally.

“They can deposit their passports in court and abide by terms and conditions to be set by this court,” the lawyers submitted.

Strict conditions

Prosecutors did not oppose the defence request but urged the court to impose stringentconditions.

The magistrate imposed a Sh400,000 bond each of the suspects with a surety of the same amount or an alternative cash bail of Sh200,000 and one contact person each.

The suspects were also ordered to deposit their passports with the court and submit their mobile phones to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for a forensic analysis.

The court also ordered the three to report to the DCI twice a week for interrogation.