Justice Esther Maina will today issue a judgement on a cemetery fraud scheme conducted by the defunct Nairobi City Council in 2008.
The case involves lawyer Alphonce Mutinda who is accused of allegedly forging a letter to facilitate the sale.
In the case, investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission revealed the land in question did not belong to a private company also implicated in the case.
It further established that a city firm, Alphonce Mutinda Advocates, allegedly forged a letter informing the City Council that the registered owner of the land, Henry Kilonzo, had appointed it as its agent to participate in the tender's bidding process.
On December 19, 2008, Kilonzi agreed to buy a property from Naen Rech Ltd for Sh110 million.
On the very same day, the council bought the very same land from Kilonzi for just over Sh283 million.
It turned out that the deal had been set up in advance where Mutinda's law firm had written to the council, falsely informing it that Kilonzi was the owner of the land and that Naen Rech was its agent, appointed to participate in the tender to supply land for a cemetery.
