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A director of Pelikan Road Signs Limited has been charged with interfering with the will of the estate of the late multi-billionaire Balkrishna Ramji Haribhai Devani.

Samuel Ngugi Ndinguri was arraigned before Milimani Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi with transferring the firm’s shares without authority.

The magistrate heard that Ndinguri alongside Dinta Devani Pathania, Abhay Singh Pathania and Addah Nduta Ndambuki allegedly altered Devani’s will when they were not administrators of his estate.

Ndinguri was further charged with swearing an affidavit in a succession matter of the estate of the deceased tycoon.

The prosecution alleged that the accused and others filed the said affidavit in the succession case in a bid to defeat justice.

The court heard Ndinguri jointly with three others who did not appear in court falsified the suit documents to alter Devani’s will dated June 2019.

Ndinguri was charged that on November 2019 at Pelikan Signs Limited in Nairobi, he forged minutes of the Board of Directors of the company purporting them to be a genuine minutes.

All the four are charged with conspiring to forge the will left behind by Devani who died on June 7, 2019.

The accused denied the charges and applied to be released on bond which was not opposed by the prosecution.

Ms Shitubi freed the accused on bond of Sh 3 million with a surety of similar amount or alternative cash bail of Sh 1 million.

The magistrate further issued a warrant of arrest for the three co-accused who failed to appear in court for plea taking.

The matter will be mentioned on May 6, for pre-trial and directions.