Businessman Mandeep Singh Channa has been charged in a Kenyan court over allegations of falsifying company documents to facilitate the resignation of a director and the transfer of 4,000 shares in Channa Investments Limited.
Channa, who denied the charges, is accused of creating and submitting several documents through the government’s Business Registration Service (BRS) portal, allegedly misrepresenting them as genuine corporate records.
The disputed documents include affidavits, board meeting minutes, a resignation letter and share transfer forms purportedly executed by Supinderpaul Singh.
According to the prosecution, the documents were allegedly used to remove Supinderpaul from his position as a director and subsequently transfer his shares to Channa.
The first set of allegations centres on an affidavit dated October 19, 2022, which prosecutors claim was falsely presented as having been sworn by Supinderpaul before advocate and Commissioner for Oaths Esther Asati.
Channa is accused of preparing the document alongside other individuals who have not been brought before the court.
Prosecutors allege that he later uploaded the affidavit to the BRS platform through his eCitizen account on October 25, 2022, to support Supinderpaul’s purported resignation.
The businessman is also accused of falsifying minutes of a company board meeting allegedly held on October 19, 2022.
The prosecution maintains that the minutes were presented as an authentic record of a duly convened meeting before being submitted to the company registry as part of the director’s resignation process.
A resignation letter bearing the same date forms another part of the case. Investigators allege that the letter was made to appear as though Supinderpaul had voluntarily signed and executed it before it was uploaded to the BRS system.
Beyond the alleged resignation, the case also involves the ownership of 4,000 ordinary shares in Channa Investments Limited.
Court documents indicate that prosecutors are challenging a share transfer instrument dated July 3, 2023, which purportedly transferred the shares from Supinderpaul to Channa.
The prosecution alleges that the instrument was fraudulent and was subsequently submitted through Channa’s eCitizen account on July 25, 2023, despite his alleged knowledge that it was not genuine.
A separate affidavit dated July 25, 2023, is also under scrutiny. Prosecutors claim it was falsely prepared to appear as though Supinderpaul had sworn it before Commissioner for Oaths Esther Asati to support the disputed share transfer.
Channa faces multiple counts of making and uttering false documents under Sections 347(a), 349 and 353 of the Penal Code.
The charges concern both the alleged preparation of fraudulent documents and their subsequent presentation to the Business Registration Service as authentic records.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was released on a cash bail of KSh300,000.
