The former manager of Oki Trading Company Limited (OTCL) who is facing stealing charges will continue waiting to know whether the court will temporarily release his passport or not.
Honey who is charged with stealing Ksh 356 million from the forementioned company had applied to the court last week to temporarily release his passport to travel to Dubai for a business trip.
When the matter came up for mention today before the Milimani senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego, the prosecution requested for two weeks to file a written submissions against the issue,
“Your honor we are requesting for two weeks to file our written submissions against the application by the defence,” prosecution pleaded through a state counsel Hillary Isiakho.
The defence lawyer informed the court that they have filed their application to the prosecution and requested the court to hear the same by way of written submissions,
“Your honor we have filed our application providing our grounds on the same and it is our humble request the hearing to proceed by way of written submissions,” the defence lawyer prayed.
In giving directions, the magistrate granted the prosecution two weeks to file their response in a written form and scheduled the matter to proceed for hearing on October 13, 2025.
Honey Khatwani, the accused person had applied his passport be released temporarily claiming that he had a business trip to Dubai where he had to attend starting on September 29 to October 16, 2025.
Khatwani was charged with stealing $2,786,174.40 (approximately Ksh . 356,711,174.40) from OTCL, the money that came into his possession through his employment.
The alleged offence occurred at Babadogo in Nairobi County between January 1, 2020, and June 30, 2024.
The court heard that the funds belonged to OKI General Trading Limited and were allegedly stolen by Khatwani while he was a company director.
