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Wycliffe Ouko on the Makadara Regulation Courts. PHOTO|JOSEPH NDUNDA
A metropolis engineer who employed a high-end automobile from a automotive vendor then allegedly colluded with different accomplices suspected to be officers of the Nationwide Transport and Security Authority (NTSA) to forge a logbook for the employed automotive earlier than utilizing it to acquire a mortgage is going through fraud expenses.
Wycliffe Odhiambo Ouko is going through three expenses together with conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor opposite to part 394 as learn with part 36 of the Penal Code.
Within the cost, he’s accused of colluding with others at giant to acquire registration by pretences for motorcar registration quantity – KDD 148Z, a Toyota Prado on January 9, 2023.
Ouko allegedly made a motorcar registration certificates (logbook) for the employed automotive and the identical was fraudulently entered into the NTSA pc programs.
The Directorate of Legal Investigations (DCI) believes some rogue officers on the state company will need to have participated within the train.
The suspect is going through a further cost of acquiring registration by false pretenses in contravention of part 320 of the Penal Code the place he’s accused of willfully procuring logbook serial quantity N5764167C on January 25, 2023.
He’s accused of committing the offence on the NTSA headquarters collectively with others not earlier than the court docket after acquiring registration quantity KDD 148Z falsely pretending the identical had been issued by the NTSA’s Directorate of Registration and Licensing realizing the identical was false.
Within the final depend, Ouko is accused of acquiring credit score by false pretenses in violation of part 316 of the Penal Code after allegedly utilizing the cast logbook and automotive which had already been affixed with totally different registration particulars to acquire a mortgage of Sh2.1 million from Kentsewe Funding Restricted.
He’s accused of acquiring the mortgage on February 3, 2023, after presenting the employed automotive which was on the time bearing registration quantity KDD 148Z which was fraudulent.
Ouko employed a motorcar – KDH 055R a Toyota Prado from Goodwill Automotive Rent earlier than he allegedly modified its registration to KDD 148Z which he offered to the lender along with the logbook as collateral whereas searching for the mortgage.
The monetary establishment’s officers made the same old search within the NTSA registration database and located that the automobile’s proprietor was Ouko and put in a monitoring gadget on it earlier than giving him the mortgage.
After receiving the cash, the brand new registration plates on the automotive bearing quantity KDD 148Z had been eliminated and changed with the real quantity – KDH 055R earlier than it was returned to the proprietor and Ouko defaulted fee for the mortgage.
Kentsewe Restricted contracted auctioneers to hint and get well the automotive utilizing the monitoring gadget and the gadget led the auctioneers to KDH 055R the matter was reported on the Central Police station in Nairobi earlier than it was referred to DCI workplaces at NTSA headquarters.
After investigations, the DCI established that KDD 148Z was not a real motorcar and is believed to have been fraudulently launched into the NTSA registration database system utilizing particulars of one other automotive, the one which Ouko had employed.
The DCI officers established that Ouko and his accomplices used illegal strategies to execute the registration using unauthorized infiltration into the NTSA programs to impact the registration.
Ouko denied the costs earlier than Principal Justice of the Peace Caroline Mugo of Makadara Regulation Courts and sought lenient bail and bond phrases by means of lawyer Peter Simiyu.
Simiyu stated that the costs towards his shopper learn that he dedicated the crimes collectively with others at giant and people at giant could possibly be the principal perpetrators of the crime.
Nevertheless, Detective Constable Abdirizak Ali of DCI NTSA workplaces filed an affidavit to oppose bail and bond phrases.
The detective informed the court docket that Ouko modified the registration of 4 different autos in comparable circumstances and obtained loans from totally different monetary establishments and people who reported to the police and the issues are nonetheless below investigation.
Ali stated there’s a want to establish the actual id of the suspect with the Nationwide Registration Bureau (NRB) since he additionally makes use of one other identify – Robert Opiyo Odhiambo.
The detective added that Ouko has an analogous pending matter – E167/2021 on the Thika regulation courts and sought the accused to be remanded pending the investigations together with the processing of the suspect’s prison information information, interrogation, and recording of statements of significant witnesses.
Additionally to be executed is an identification parade for Ouko by a number of victims of fraud and witnesses.
However Simiyu opposed the appliance and stated the investigations don’t require his shopper to be in police custody for the reason that verification can be executed by NRB and DCI and his shopper doesn’t work for any of the 2 establishments.
Ms Mugo remanded Ouko till November 3 when she’s going to make a ruling over the matter.
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