{"id":920246,"date":"2022-01-28T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/woman-charged-with-stealing-sh78m-from-employer\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:35:53","slug":"woman-charged-with-stealing-sh78m-from-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/28\/woman-charged-with-stealing-sh78m-from-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged with stealing Sh78m from employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/glyrvep3bghw4ed61f3aaae8047d.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>The suspect allegedly stole the funds on diverse dates between December 19, 2019 and September 30, 2021.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">The former general manager of a distribution company based in Kisii County was on Wednesday, January 26 arraigned at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi for allegedly stealing Sh78 million from her ex-employer.\n<\/p>\n<p>The court was told that Millicent Akeyo Akinyi allegedly stole the funds on diverse dates between December 19, 2019 and September 30, 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Akinyi is alleged to have, thereafter, resigned from the company.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a servant of TB Distributors Limited, you stole Sh78,014,894, which came into your possession by virtue of employment as the general manager of the distribution company,\u201d the charge sheet said.<\/p>\n<p>After the said-theft was discovered, the firm launched investigations, which resulted in the arraignment of Akinyi, warehouse lead officer, finance chief and sales representatives.\n<\/p>\n<p>The company said in court that neither Akinyi nor her co-accused alerted the directors about the loss of funds.\n<\/p>\n<p>The directors told the court that they turned to auditors to help unravel the mystery of missing funds. <\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the audit, which revealed that Sh78 million was missing from the company accounts, the directors filed a report at Kamukunji Police Station in Nairobi.\n<\/p>\n<p>Akinyi was, consequently, arrested at her new work centre in Makaburini area, Kamukunji Constituency.\n<\/p>\n<p>Akinyi denied the charges, and was released on Sh10 million bond. The matter resumes for hearing on July 11, 2022.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nMillicent Akeyo Akinyi<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nMakadara Law Courts<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435789\/woman-charged-with-stealing-sh78m-from-employer\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspect allegedly stole the funds on diverse dates between December 19, 2019 and September 30, 2021. [Courtesy] The former general manager of a distribution company based in Kisii County was on Wednesday, January 26 arraigned at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi for allegedly stealing Sh78 million from her ex-employer. The court was told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}