Tycoon from Mombasa Ashok Doshi To Be Charged On Monday

Ashok Doshi, a businessman from Mombasa, was detained by the DCI on Saturday and is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

A well-known merchant from the coast named Doshi was taken into custody by officers from the DCI land Fraud team. However, police personnel at the Muthaiga police station freed him on a monetary bond. Doshi’s detention is connected to a plot of land in the city that is worth billions of shs.

Abdalla Komesha, the chief of investigations at the DCI, confirmed the businessman’s detention on Sunday. The trader will appear in court, according to Komesha, to answer allegations of land fraud.

Doshi and his wife lost their plea in October 2021 asking for a permanent injunction to prevent the police and the DPP from detaining them and filing charges against them for alleged fraud involving a valuable piece of land in Nairobi. Despite Doshi and another corporation both claimed ownership of the land along Nairobi’s Processional path, Doshi has been active in the land.

The Doshis informed the court that they are the registered owners of the land in court records. According to the archives, Greenview Lodge Ltd. was the original owner of the land. After that, Greenview sold the land to Magnum Properties Ltd., who then received ownership of it for Sh150 million in 2018. The Doshis claimed that Greenview Lodge Ltd. and its director Jennifer Nthenya had complained to multiple government agencies despite having sold the site to Magnum Properties Ltd.

The petitioners asserted that Greenview Lodge Ltd. and Nthenya had falsely transferred the land to Magnum Properties Ltd. and then to Doshi in their complaints. The Doshis asserted that the police and DPP, among other government organizations, had looked into the concerns at the time. He claimed in court documents that the investigating authorities had rejected each and every claim of an ownership dispute.

However, Green View Lodge claimed in response documents that it is the rightful owner of the land that the government gave them in 1986. The National Land Commission and the Ministry of Lands and Settlement’s internal departments conducted comprehensive and drawn-out examinations into the incident, according to Green View Lodge Ltd.