Abdoulaye Tamba Kouro was accused of obtaining 100, 000 million US dollars from Mungatana between April 2011 and April 2013 at Kilimani, Nairobi with intend to defraud. He obtained the cash by falsely pretending he was in a position to invest for him in oil industry.
He was also charged with obtaining Sh 700, 000 from businessman Makau Muteke falsely pretending he would invest for him in a undisclosed business.
Kouro was also charged with being in possession of papers intended to resemble and pass as currency notes knowing them to be forged.
He was arrested at a residential house in Westlands, Nairobi, by Flying Squad officers on October 1.
The officers claim they found the foreigner with 54, 000 USD in denominations of 100, 19, 000 euros of 100 denominations and 3, 400 other pieces of Euros of 500 denominations all valued at Sh 960, 120, 000.
The detectives ransacked the four bedroom apartment and also recovered a wooden glass box which was purportedly used to make the money.
Four animal skins and other paraphernalia that Kouro and his son and accomplice Abdalla Tamba used were also recovered.
Kouro denied the charges before chief magistrate Francis Andayi.
He was released on Sh 5 million bond and alternative cash bail of Sh 3 million. He was directed to surrender his travel documents.
Police have lined up Mungatana and Muteke as witnesses.
Others are Kouro's driver Anthony Munyiva as one of their witnesses. Hearing of the case starts on November 22.
-Joseph Ndunda
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