The prosecution has opposed an application seeking the release of a passport to a Swedish businesswoman accused of meddling in a deceased person’s property. Faduma Mohamed Mire, a Swedish national, is charged with attempting to acquire property worth over Ksh 110 million belonging to the late Mohamed Modhiriri.
Mire is also accused of forging a marriage certificate, purporting it to be a certificate issued by the Kadhi’s Court in Nairobi on 10 September 1993. When the case came up for mention before Milimani Principal Magistrate Ben Mark, the defence applied for the release of her passport, which is being held by the court as part of her bond terms following her charge. She applied to have her passport returned to travel to Sweden to see her ailing mother.
However, when the court asked her to produce proof that her mother was ill, she was unable to support her application. She was also unable to provide any evidence that her mother was in Sweden. The court was further informed that the Kadhi’s Court had already established that the accused had forged an Islamic marriage certificate between her and the late Abdulkadir Musse Farah.
Mire is accused of conspiring, on or before 5 November 2011, to defraud the late Mohamed Mondihiri of a property measuring approximately 0.2085 hectares, located in Eastleigh, Nairobi, and valued at Ksh 110 million. She allegedly did so by falsely drawing a forged indenture of conveyance, purporting it to be registered—a fact she knew to be false.
The accused faces charges of forgery concerning the title of the same land. The court heard that on the same date, at an unknown location, she intended to forge a title deed for the said parcel of land, falsely purporting it to be genuine.
Additionally, she faces other charges related to a false indenture of conveyance for a sum of Ksh 30 million, pretending that she had purchased the said parcel of land from the late Mohamed Mondihiri.
The accused denied that, on or before 14 June 2018, she, along with others not before the court, meddled with the said parcel of land, which belonged to the deceased, by selling it off.
