{"id":778,"date":"2020-01-15T15:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=778"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T15:25:40","slug":"man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged","title":{"rendered":"Man found with county cheques worth Sh1.8 million charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was Wednesday charged at the Busia Law Courts for stealing two cheque leaves that belong to the county assembly of Busia amounting to Sh1.8 million.Fidelis Maxwell Odhiambo Ochieng (pictured) pleaded not guilty to the three charges\u00a0read to him before resident magistrate Tina Madowo.<\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet read that on diverse dates within Busia County, jointly with others not before the court, stole two cheque leaves numbers 676 and 688, the property of county government of Busia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn diverse dates between November 1, 2019 and December 2019 at Busia Township in Matayos sub county with others not before court, with intention to defraud, forged two Cooperative Bank cheques purporting that they were eligible for payment for a sum of Sh950,000 and Sh850,000,\u201d read the charge sheet in part.The suspect who hails from Bumala in Butula constituency was arrested in Nairobi last week where he works and taken\u00a0 to Busia for prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The Matayos Divisional Criminal Investigation Officer Samuel Agutu is still carrying out investigation. \u201cWe intend to make more arrests. Soon other suspects will be arraigned in court,\u201d said Agutu.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelis who is not county assembly staff was granted Sh1 million bond with surety of similar amount.The case will be mentioned on January 27 and hearing slated for May 6 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was Wednesday charged at the Busia Law Courts for stealing two cheque leaves that belong to the county assembly of Busia amounting to Sh1.8 million.Fidelis Maxwell Odhiambo Ochieng (pictured) pleaded not guilty to the three charges\u00a0read to him before resident magistrate Tina Madowo. The charge sheet read that on diverse dates within Busia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[475,473,474],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-busia-county","tag-fidelis-maxwell-odhiambo","tag-forgery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Man found with county cheques worth Sh1.8 million charged - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A man was Wednesday charged at the Busia Law Courts for stealing two cheque leaves that belong to the county assembly of Busia amounting to Sh1.8 million\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man found with county cheques worth Sh1.8 million charged\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A man was Wednesday charged at the Busia Law Courts for stealing two cheque leaves that belong to the county assembly of Busia amounting to Sh1.8 million\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-15T15:25:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/gpwfwtiby6ajgtm6k8m5e1f02f2903b6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"590\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Man found with county cheques worth Sh1.8 million charged\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-15T15:25:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/sites\/28\/2020\/01\/gpwfwtiby6ajgtm6k8m5e1f02f2903b6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Busia County\",\"Fidelis Maxwell Odhiambo\",\"Forgery\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/community\/man-found-with-county-cheques-worth-sh1-8-million-charged\",\"name\":\"Man found with county cheques worth Sh1.8 million charged - 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