Salim Swaleh and co- accused's case deferred

The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions  Renson Ingonga has embarked on a fresh review of Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi's Press Secretary Salim Swaleh's Sh5.8 million fraud case.

During the plea taking on Monday, August 8, before Milimani Chief Magistrate Benard Ochoi, he referred the Swaleh’s and four others' cases to next week August 14.

This is after Swaleh, through senior prosecutor James Gachoka, wrote a letter to Ingonga asking him to review last Wednesday's decision to approve that he be charged over the multi-million Stadia scandal.

Swaleh and the four were supposed to plead to the charges but could not, following the new evidence provided.

According to the charge sheet, Japolo Otieno, Terry Kemunto, Daniel Omondi, Salim Swaleh and John Wabomba are alleged to have conspired to defraud Sh5.8 million from a consultancy company.

The offence is said to have been committed on diverse dates between June 4, 2014, and June 22, 2014, at the Prime Cabinet Secretary's office, specifically at the office of the Director of Press Services, within Nairobi.

"The five jointly with others not before court conspired to defraud $45,000 equivalent to Sh5.8 million from an engineering consultancy company, by falsely pretending that you were in a position to secure tender for construction of two stadia in Kenya, a fact you knew to be false," reads the charge sheet in part.