A 40-year- old man was arraigned in a Nakuru court to face charges of fraudulently obtaining Sh20,000 from his mother in-law.
The court was told that Charles Kongo, on diverse dates of June this year, posing as a precious metals dealer conned Annah Maresi who is her mother in-law Sh20,000 in cash after convincing her that she would earn double the amount after jointly investing in a precious metals deal.
The prosecution desk told the court under the precision of Chief Resident Magistrate Patrick Mwaniki that on the said dates the accused accompanied with her wife Florence Maresi had convinced the complainant that he would travel to the Republic of Rwanda for a week to buy the precious items and return to sell them in Nairobi at a higher amount.
The court was informed that the accused had obtained the money from the complainant and went missing for over four months.
In that period, Kongo separated with his wife and never communicated to his mother-in-law in connection with the deal in the case.
The accused was arrested on October 20 this year and promised in writing, witnessed by police at Teachers police post to repay the money to the complainant in a period of two weeks.
However he never abided by the promise and went missing again before being arrested again on December 5 this year.
The accused denied the charges and was released on a cash bail of sh,10,000.The case will be heard on January 7 next year.