[The corridors of justice./The Law]
A Mombasa court has denied bond to 11 Pakistanis who are charged with money laundering and financing terrorism in Kenya.
Senior Resident Magistrate Janet Kassam, who is presiding over the case, ordered for the suspects to remain in custody for 10 days.
The port police felt they did not have enough evidence to criminalize the eleven foreigners thus requested for more time to carry out investigation from the court, of which it was granted sending the suspects back to custody for one and a half weeks.
The eleven first appeared before the magistrate court yesterday after being kept under police custody since Tuesday last week.
The suspects were apprehended after a successful sting operation by police bore fruits from the leads that the Pakistani citizens were disguising money laundry and financing of terrorism in Kenya through their importation of rice from their country into Kenya.
However, of one of the accused claimed to be sickly thereby requested for treatment through their lawyer Pascal Nabwana who also pleaded on behalf of the offenders to be transferred to a cell to keep the infections at bay.
“I plead that two of my clients be taken to hospital for treatment and transferred from Central Police Station to Port Police Station as it is spacious, clean and has free circulation of air,” he said.
The magistrate allowed two of the accused Kumar Haresh and Kumar Sunir be taken to hospital for medical care. Their case will be mentioned on January 19.
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