I have bribed the DPP and let them waste their time, Patel Ravji Lalji brags that all criminal cases against him will be dropped. As President William Ruto tries to fight graft in his administration, it appears that some officers from the directorate of criminal investigations are compromised.
This is after businessman Patel Ravji Lalji, an Indian man with multiple cases in several courts in the country, told his confidant that all his criminal cases would be dropped as he had already ” paid” some DPP officials for the same. True to his word, an officer of the DPP forcefully adjourned one of his criminal cases at the Milimani Courts on Monday even as key witnesses were present in court.
” We are not withdrawing this case, it must proceed,” a magistrate stated. The Dpp quickly rubbished the magistrate’s stand and said that he awaits some senior instructions from his senior on the same. According to Patel Ravji Lalji, a close confidant who wanted his name hidden, Lalji informed him that all the cases would be withdrawn as he had already bought off his justice.
” He confidently told me to accompany him to court as the matter was going to be withdrawn, he said that he had already spent some Millions which he had paid an officer of the DPP for the same and that all his criminal cases were going to be done away with,” he stated.
In one of the cases, the controversial businessman has been charged with falsely obtaining credit worth Sh135 million from two banks. Patel Ravji Lalji was charged before Milimani Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku, where he denied two counts of charges brought against him.
The court heard that Lalji obtained Sh60 million from Prime Bank on or about November 17, 2011, and charged a title deed in the name of Cadillac Ltd., yet he knew that he had sold the property to Sadat Macharia Muhindi. He and the company are also accused that on or about August 22, 2019, at ASL Credit Limited in Westlands, Nairobi, jointly with others, not before the court, he incurred a debt or liability to ASL by obtaining credit worth Sh75 million.
The court heard that he pretended that the said title deed was legitimate, a fact he knew to be false, having sold the said land. The court ordered the businessman and his company to deposit cash bail of Sh3 million each to secure their release. In another case at the Milimani courts, which is also on the radar of his skewed corrupt withdrawal, he is charged with defrauding Hesbon Omondi.
This is the first case in which the DPP has instructions to strike. For instance; the businessman was charged before a Milimani court with forging the signatures of various Nairobi residents in a land fraud. Patel Ralji was accused of fraudulently forging the signature of Tom Odhiambo on a letter for payment of plot number 209\11309.
He allegedly committed the offense on August 1, 2013, at an unknown place in Nairobi. Ralji faced another charge of fraudulently forging a signature of Amsa Jerotich for the payment of the same plot, purporting it to be genuine on the same dates. He is also alleged to have forged the signatures of Hesbon Omondi and another person for the account sale of the plot between November 15 and December 11, 2013.
The court heard Ralji also allegedly knowingly gave false testimony and presented forged documents touching on matters that were in the material proceedings on March 7, 2019, at the ELC court in Milimani. Ralji denied the charges before senior resident magistrate Caroline Muthoni pleaded for lenient bond terms, and was supplied with witness statements by the prosecution.
He was released on a cash bail of Sh50,000 or a bond of Sh100,000. The case will be mentioned on July 24. In another case at the Kibera Court, the accused person is accused of forging a certain Guardian Bank RTGS application for money transfer, purporting it to have been drawn to pay Hesbon Omondi Sh15M through his Absa account at Yaya Centre, a fact he knew to be false.
He is said to have committed the offense on December 29, 2016, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya. He was charged alongside other criminal counts. The accused person now brags that the DPP is going to with this case too We now wait to see how this bragging will bore any fruits
