The hearing of a case in which four people are accused of conspiring to defraud a foreigner USD 100,000 has been pushed to July.

Trial Magistrate Caroline Mugo directed the hearing to proceed on 21st July 2026.

This is after the first prosecution witness, the complainant Abdoul Azis Mamane was stood down during his testimony to allow his to liaise with the investigating officer on the documents being produced in court.

The complainant, who was giving his testimony virtually was also asked to lias with the investigating officer on his security should he be physically present in Kenya during that date.

The complainant had allegedly raised issue of security concern over the conduct of the matter.

“If the complainant is able to be present then he can lias with IO on his security…….If not the matter will proceed virtually,” the magistrate ruled.

Mamane was giving his testimony on how he was conned USD 5,000,000 gold all the way from Mali to Kenya.

In the case, Susan Wanjeri Kogi, Elvis Ouma Muga,Nazlin Karim Rahimbux and Hubbard Kanyago Ndong’o are accused of conspiring to defraud AAZ Sinegold & Diamond LLC USD 100,000 by falsely pretending that they were in a position facilitate exportation of 20kgs of gold to the said company in Dubai, a fact they knew to be false.

Ndong’o is also facing three other charges of forgery. According to the charge sheet, he allegedly forged a Kenya  Revenue Authority (KRA) letter and a release order.

In addition, he is accused of forging a personal details form for East Africa Community purporting them to be genuine documents from the KRA.

According to the complainant, his friend travelled to Mali to check on a gold transaction that eventually took a very twisted turn leaving him with a loss of over USD 5 million.