Charles Wanjohi Chomba alias Wathuku is said to have forged a birth certificate and identification card while posing as the son of the late Wathuku Ngure.
The accused was charged with seven counts before senior resident magistrate Nelly Kariuki.
The first count involved making a false statement for insertion in the registers of birth.
A Nyeri court Tuesday charged a man accused of forging personal registration documents to inherit a Sh2 billion estate of a person who died childless and without a spouse.
Charles Wanjohi Chomba alias Wathuku is said to have forged a birth certificate and identification card while posing as the son of the late Wathuku Ngure.
The accused was charged with seven counts before senior resident magistrate Nelly Kariuki.
The first count involved making a false statement for insertion in the registers of birth.
The court heard that on November 20, 2006 at the Civil Registration office in Nyeri, the accused lied that he was born on December 6, 1968, which he knew to be false.
Mr Chomba was also charged with lying to a public service officer.
According to the charge, he gave false information to Peter Mutua, an officer at the registrar’s office, who changed his birth registration information.
In the third count, he was charged with obtaining registration by false pretence.
Ms Kariuki heard that on November 24, 2006, at the Kieni East Registrar of Persons office, with an intent to defraud, Mr Chomba obtained a birth certificate with false information.
The fourth count was obtaining registration by false pretence. He was accused that on February 26, 1990, with an intent to defraud, he changed the information on his identification card.
He changed his district and location to purport that an affidavit dated December 28, 1992, written and sworn by the deceased was correct.
For the fifth count, he was accused of writing a false affidavit dated December 28, 1992, written by the late Ngure and claiming it was genuine.
Mr Chomba is said to have committed the offence on unknown dates and place within the country.
The court heard that he committed the offence intending to swindle the estate of the deceased, which consisted of plots of land in Kiganjo, Muhito and Mbuine all valued at Sh2 billion.
He was also charged with a sixth count of conspiracy to defraud.
The court was told he committed the offence together with Lydia Chomba.
Ms Kariuki heard that about December 28, 1992, at an unknown place, jointly with others not before the court, he conspired to defraud the estate of the late Ngure.
Together, they changed the name on the said affidavit and claimed was written and sworn by the deceased.
For the seventh count, the court heard, he demanded the deceased’s property after forging the testamentary documents. On diverse dates between February 14 and April 14, 2003, at Kencom house in Nairobi, Chomba sold a plot of land belonging to the deceased.
The court heard that he procured payment of the plot of land for Sh16 million by using letters of administration that he was issued after submitting the false affidavit dated 1992.
The accused denied all the charges against him.
Through his lawyer Douglas Ombongi, he prayed for a free bond citing that the criminal suit placed against him arose after a succession dispute.
The case will be mentioned on November 25.
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