A Magistrates court has deferred Prime CS Musalia Mudavadi's Press Secretary Salim Swaleh's Sh5.8 million fraud case to Wednesday next week.
Milimani Chief Magistrate Bernard Ochoi slated the matter for August 14 after Senior Prosecution James Gachoka told the court that the accused persons have written to the DPP seeking to have the charges levelled against them reviewed.
The court was told that the DPP is pursuing the file following 'new evidence availed' to him.
The accused persons were to plead to the charges but they did not owing to the new developments.
The magistrate subsequently scheduled the matter for next week to allow the DPP Renson Ingonga to decide on the same.
According to the charge sheet, Japolo Otieno, Terry Kemunto, Daniel Omondi, Salim Swaleh and John Wabomba are alleged to have conspired to defraud Sh5.8 million from a consultancy company.
The offence is said to have been committed on diverse dates between June 4, 2014, and June 22, 2014, at the Prime Cabinet Secretary's office, specifically at the office of the Director of Press Services, within Nairobi county.
"The five jointly with others not before court conspired to defraud $45,000 equivalent to Sh5.8 million from an engineering consultancy company, by falsely pretending that you were in a position to secure tender for construction of two stadia in Kenya, a fact you knew to be false," reads the charge sheet in part.
