Meru Senator Mithika Linturi Faced with 37 Charges over Sh.100 Million Loans

Charges facing Senator Linturi include giving false information to a person in public service, obtaining credit by false pretenses, and impersonation.

Others include abuse of office, fraudulent procuring of the registration of charge of documents, forgery, and intent to defraud.

Interior CS Fred Matiang’i told lawmakers probing the arrest of the Meru Senator on April 28 that the charges were criminal in nature. 

“Honourable chair, the above 37 counts are all criminal charges investigated and approved for prosecution and are not civil at all,” said Matiang’i on Friday.

According to Matiang’I, on November 15, 2018, Collins Ngetich, a director of Barons Estates reported to the DCI that in June 2018 when he discovered that the directors of Atticon i.e Senato Linturi and Nkirote had fraudulently applied for renewal of an overdraft facility of Sh100 million and other dealings without his consent.

Linturi had in March moved to court to stop the DPP from charging him and his co-director Nkirote.

They said that their intended prosecution is unlawful as it relates to the family and property dispute between Linturi and his estranged wife Maryanne Kitany.

Kitany filed a complaint with the DCI two years ago accusing Linturi and Nkirote who were also directors of Atticon Ltd of fraudsters of taking a loan with fake papers.

Linturi asked in vain the court to grant them anticipatory bail pending their arrest and prosecution.