{"id":122134,"date":"2025-09-26T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/narok-businessman-sues-after-sh10mn-loss-in-failed-java-house-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:07:38","slug":"narok-businessman-sues-after-sh10mn-loss-in-failed-java-house-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/narok-businessman-sues-after-sh10mn-loss-in-failed-java-house-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Narok businessman sues after Sh10mn loss in failed Java House deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 \u2013 A Narok businessman, Awil Abdirhaman Adulle, has taken a fraud case to court after allegedly losing Sh10 million in a failed deal to establish a Java House branch that was never built.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awil told the court he was first approached in 2018 by Java House property manager Gianni Mwaniki, who proposed setting up an outlet at his petrol station in Narok.<\/p>\n<p>He said subsequent meetings involved senior executives from the restaurant chain, leading to a 2021 agreement under which he transferred millions via M-Pesa and bank transactions for construction of the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Java House [was] ever built, and the accused gave me fake documentation. I have never seen anything from him,\u201d Awil testified.<\/p>\n<p>Court records indicate that former Java House Chief Executive Officer Derrick Cornelius Van Houten faced a charge of obtaining Sh7.9 million from Awil by false pretence between October 2021 and January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint construction never began upon completion of payments as expected. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, the accused allegedly terminated the contract while purporting to refund the money \u2014 a promise that never materialised.<\/p>\n<p>Van Houten has denied the charges before the Milimani Law Courts and secured release on a cash bail of Sh500,000.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2024, the Director of Public Prosecutions rejected an application to drop the case, ruling that there was sufficient evidence for the matter to proceed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 26 \u2013 A Narok businessman, Awil Abdirhaman Adulle, has taken a fraud case to court after allegedly losing Sh10 million in a failed deal to establish a Java House branch that was never built. Awil told the court he was first approached in 2018 by Java House property manager Gianni Mwaniki, who [&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-122134","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\/122134","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=122134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}