A university dropout, Seth Mwabe Okwanyo, alias Seth Onyango Odhiambo, linked with syphoning Ksh11,410,165 from a betting firm, has been charged with 20 different charges.
The Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) has charged Mwabe with computer fraud, money laundering, and other crimes.
Appearing before Milimani Senior Resident Magistrate Irene Thamara on Wednesday, February 11, 2026, Mwabe denied all the 20 charges against him, and a plea of not guilty was entered.
His legal team urged the court to use the previous cash bail that the accused was granted in a miscellaneous application on the same matter.
“The accused person was initially charged with a miscellaneous case and was released on a cash bail of Ksh500,000. We plead for the money to be used by the court for his release, as he’s previously complied with court terms,” Mwabe’s lawyer told the court.
Further, the defence rejected the other name added in the charge sheet that refers to him as Seth Mwabe Okwanyo, alias Seth Onyango Odhiambo, firmly stating that he is not Onyango.
The court released him on a bond of Ksh1.5 million with an alternative of Ksh500,000 cash bail.
“The accused is hereby granted a bond of Ksh1.5 million or a cash bail of Ksh500,000 with one contact person,” Magistrate Thamara ruled.
According to the charge sheet, Mwabe is charged with unauthorised access to a computer system contrary to section 14(1) of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act for transferring Ksh11,410,165 from Afrisend Money Transfer Limited on July 16, 2025.
“On July 16, 2025, at Afrisend Money Transfer Limited in Nairobi County, jointly with others not before the court, knowingly and without authority with intention to gain access, infringed the security measures at Afrisend Money Transfer Limited by temporarily causing its payment system to fraudulently transfer Ksh11,410,165 from an account domiciled at Diamond Trust Bank.”
On another account, he has been charged with computer fraud contrary to section 26 1(b) as read with section 26(2)(a) of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act for occasioning unlawful financial loss of Ksh11.4 million through unauthorised access.
The DPP also charged him with money laundering contrary to section 3 (b) (i) as read with section 16 (1) (a) of the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act.
Mwabe is accused of entering an arrangement to transact various amounts of money to different bank accounts of different people, knowing that the said monies were proceeds of crime.
Among the accounts the monies were transferred to belonged to Josphat Kemoi, Eliasgar Mohammed, Brian Rotich Merisya, Elkanah Phoghisio, Samuel Kimeli, Paul Kitema, Matthews Nafula, Steelspur Tools, and Kevin Kibaki, among others.
The DPP, through a miscellaneous application, arraigned Seth in court before Principal Magistrate Ben Mark Ekhubi on September 1, 2025, where they sought to detain him for 20 days to complete investigations.
However, the court declined the prosecution application and released him on a bond of Ksh1 million with a surety of a similar amount or, alternatively, a cash bail of Ksh500,000 with three contact persons.
The matter will be mentioned on March 3, 2026.
