US - Based Kenyan Pastor Charged With Forgery Of Church Papers To Embezzle Funds

Pastor Ismael Denis Omondi spent the weekend at the police station following the accusation of forging the church papers to divert the funds.

US - Based Kenyan Pastor Charged With Forgery Of Church Papers To Embezzle Funds

The United States-based Kenyan Pastor was on Friday, July 30 charged with two accounts of forgery and conspiracy to commit a felony.

The charged sheet reported that the Kenyan Pastor apparently forged a rival church's constitution and minutes, his aim being the diversion of funds to his church.

It is because of these accusations that the Kenyan Pastor spent the weekend at Diani Police Station awaiting his bond application at Kwale Law Court whit was set for today, August 2.

The charges read that on diverse dates between September and October 13, 2019, at an unknown place in Kenya, he jointly with others not before the court conspired to commit a felony namely forgery of Service Ministries constitution with intent to divert funds to Restoration Kenya Ministries.

He allegedly forged the constitution and minutes of an annual meeting to the Registrar of Societies purported to have been signed by the Kenya Ministries secretary James Muthee Njau.

The man of God who ministers in Upendo Baptist Church in Dallas, United States pleaded not guilty to the charges before Kwale Senior Principal Magistrate Joe Omido.