{"id":115093,"date":"2025-05-15T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/court-extends-musician-ringtones-detention-in-sh50mn-property-fraud-case\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T15:03:33","slug":"court-extends-musician-ringtones-detention-in-sh50mn-property-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-extends-musician-ringtones-detention-in-sh50mn-property-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Court extends musician Ringtone\u2019s detention in Sh50mn  property fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 15 \u2014 The court has extended the detention of musician Alex Apoko, widely known as <em>Ringtone<\/em>, until Monday, pending a pre-bail report in connection with a Sh50 million property fraud case.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ringtone and his co-accused, Alfred Juma Ayora, were arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Dolphina Alego on Thursday, where they denied three charges brought against them by the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>The two are accused of unlawfully taking possession of a property belonging to Teresia Athiambo Odhiambo, an offence allegedly committed on February 28, 2023. <\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Ringtone is said to have sworn a false affidavit at the law firm of S.M. Katonya Advocates, claiming to have owned the property for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution informed the court that the affidavit was used in a case filed before the Environment and Land Court in support of the disputed ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Alego directed that a pre-bail report be prepared to guide the court on appropriate bail and bond terms for the accused.<\/p>\n<p>The duo was ordered detained at Capital Hill Police Station and will be produced in court on May 19.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 15 \u2014 The court has extended the detention of musician Alex Apoko, widely known as Ringtone, until Monday, pending a pre-bail report in connection with a Sh50 million property fraud case. Ringtone and his co-accused, Alfred Juma Ayora, were arraigned before Senior Principal Magistrate Dolphina Alego on Thursday, where they denied three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}