Part 1. Top Lawyer and Business Man involved in dubious land deals

Mr Nirish Shah and Mr . Harit Sheth

Owning a piece of land in Kenya can be as easy as it sounds, but when the process involves persons with vested interest and ill motives to make quick money, it can turn to be a nightmare with tiresome legal battles thereafter. The person on the receiving end will feel the pain as they watch their savings , loans or pension goes up in smoke. While on the other hand, the other party (Cartel) will make millions if not billions in the transactions and sooner than later join the billionaires top league.

Questions have been raised about Mr. Harit Sheth founder Harit Seth Advocates and  Mr. Nirish Shah who is the director of Chigwell holdings. In a recent interview with business daily , Mr. shah lamented to have started by buying small parcels of land in the upmarket Runda Estate in Nairobi for sale at a profit. He later sought two partners and bought a piece of land in Lang’ata, Nairobi, in 2005 for real estate project that kicked off in 2007. But declined to comment on how much each one of them contributed to the project because they have a binding agreement on confidentiality.
They spent Sh250 million on their first project — Phenom Estate in Lang’ata — to set up a residential estate.

The profit from the property development aided their expansion. They bought an additional piece of land in Athi River and built another estate named Sidai Village, which stands on 100-acre parcel of land. Mr. Shah and his business partners brought on board more investors and opened two different units under Chingwell Holdings — Nirish Group and Spinkit Group, which consist of 12 investors with stakes in both businesses. They recently bought 400 acres of land in Limuru under their sister firm Red Coral Properties. They intend to acquire more in coming years.

Questions
1. How did they (Harit Sheth and Nirish Shah ) acquire 100acrea piece land in Athi River , its alleged that they ( Mr Harit Sheth and Nirish Shah ) robbed a city tycoon of 800 acres at kmc athi river by shylock Loans over 10 years
2. Did they submit returns in the sale of sidai estate which stands on 100acre piece of land and have they been paying county land rates to Mavoko county.
3. Harit Seth received close to Kes 1.8b on behalf of city tycoon in the GSU land case Ruaraka where the tycoon was awarded 4.8b by the high court. Did they file returns ?
4. Its alleged that they fraudulently backdated land documents  and transferd clients land who had paid the full amount. Mr Harit Seth forged records to show that he had already sold land to Mr. Nirish Shah who record show was am employee at his firm and married to his sister
5. Is there documents and invoices that shows Mr Nirish Shah paid Harit Sheth / Francis Mburu for the 10acre of land at AthiRiver?
6. In Mr Nirish own words he declined to talk about the  identity of his partners and how much eaeach contributed .
7. Mr. Nirish Shah company Chigwell Holdings evicted one of his client who had bought a house at phenom Estate in langata. If you look at the court documents and ruling you will clearly see that something was a miss

If the Kenya government is quiet about the Cartels in the land business and failure for self made business men and women to declare their source of income or capital, then where is the country heading to..

Be the Judge Part 2 coming...