Businessman Philip Chrisantus Okeyo Obure, alias Chris Obure, was on Tuesday, January 28 charged with forging documents in a bid to sale Senteu Plaza, a building in Nairobi County.
Obure pleaded not guilty to four counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, forgery, giving false information and uttering false documents before Chief Magistrate Susan Shitubi at the Milimani Law Court.
He was released on a bond of KSh500,000 with an alternative cash bail of KSh200,000.
Obure’s arraigning at the Milimani Law Courts came after his arrest on Monday, January 27 after detectives based at Serious Crime Unit backed by DCI’s Document Examiners established that the businessman had presented forged Binding Resolutions fronting them as genuine in an attempt to claim ownership of multimillion Senteu Plaza.
The court heard that Obure, whose firm SBS Dunhill East Africa is housed at the plaza, had previously used the said documents to fraudulently obtain money from foreigners whom he lured into believing he is the owner.
According to prosecution, Obure committed the offences between June 12, 2017 and October 9, 2023, at an unknown place within the Republic of Kenya, jointly with others who were not before the court.
This comes days after a judgement delivered by Justice Patrick Otieno at Milimani High Court on January 23, 2025, giving the Assets Recovery Agency a greenlight to recover over KSh18 million from two private jet leasing firms linked to Obure following their suspicious involvement in international money laundering syndicate.
In his judgment, Justice Otieno declared that the sums of money held in various accounts belonging to the two firms, subsidiaries of United States-registered companies, were derived from illegal activities and should be forfeited to the state as proceeds of crime.
