•Soi had asked the court to release him on bail as he awaits the hearing and determination of his appeal.
•He argued that his conviction over the 2016 Rio scandal was unlawful as he never authorized the cancellation of the air tickets.
Former NOCK official Stephen Soi will on Thursday know his fate as High Court delivers judgment in an appeal he filed against his 17-year prison sentence.
Justice Esther Maina is expected to deliver the judgement after initially declining to release Soi from incarceration on bond.
The judge said although Soi produced medical reports indicating he had several ailments, the prison facility had the capacity to address those issues.
Soi had asked the court to release him on bail as he awaits the hearing and determination of his appeal.
He argued that his conviction over the 2016 Rio scandal was unlawful as he never authorized the cancellation of the air tickets.
Soi, 65, was in September last year convicted and sentenced by chief magistrate Elizabeth Juma to pay a fine of Sh105 million or, in default, serve 17 years in prison.
Being dissatisfied with the conviction and sentence, he has lodged an appeal challenging the decision.
Elsewhere in court, former Laikipia North MP Matthew Lempurkel will be waiting for directions in an appeal he lodged against his one-year jail sentence.
Lempurkel was jailed for one year on November 5, 2021, after a magistrate court found him guilty of assaulting his political rival, Sarah Korere.
Korere is the current MP for Laikipia North after defeating Lempurkel in the 2017 election. She retained the seat on a Jubilee party ticket during the August 9, 2022, general election.
Milimani senior principal magistrate Helen Okwany, in her ruling, held that Lempurkel assaulted Korere in 2016.
The magistrate did not give the former lawmaker an option of a fine. Consequently, Lempurkel was jailed at the Kamiti Maximum Prison.
And in Kibera, a magistrate is set to rule on an application in which a man is seeking orders to bar his estranged wife from sending him disturbing messages.