Migori Woman Charged For Extorting City Lawyer KSh 600k After Threatening To Leak His Photos

• A woman from Migori county was on Monday, September 23, arraigned before a Nairobi court accused of extorting a lawyer
• Marion Bonareri is alleged to have received over KSh 600,000 from the lawyer after she threatened to leak his photos
• Court documents seen by TUKO.co.ke show that Bonareri and the city lawyer, Wilfred Oroko, met on Facebook

Nairobi—A 31-year-old woman from Migori has been charged with extortion after she allegedly obtained KSh 600,000 from a city lawyer.

Marion Bonareri, on Monday, September 23, appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Benmark Ekhubi, where she faced charges of illegally obtaining the money after threatening to leak compromising pictures of the lawyer.

How Migori woman extorted Nairobi lawyer

Court documents seen by TUKO.co.ke show that Bonareri committed the crime on various dates between January 1, 2018, and April 28, 2024, in Webuye town, Bungoma County.

According to the prosecution, the accused, using threats and intimidation, extorted KSh 669,084 from Wilfred Oroko by threatening to expose his private photos.

The court was told that the two met on Facebook, where they allegedly exchanged photos. The accused is claimed to have created a pseudo account where she downloaded photos and presented them as herself on both Instagram and Facebook.

However, after some time, Bonareri is alleged to have started demanding money from the lawyer with threats of publishing his photos. She allegedly received various amounts through the mobile money transfer platform M-Pesa.

Court documents indicate that the accused also uploaded some of the photos on the Smart Girls page on Facebook, where she reportedly posted the lawyer’s photo captioned "Nani anajua huyu mkiisi."

It's then that Oroko reported the matter to the police which led to her arrest.

Bonareri pleaded not guilty to extortion and was freed on a cash bail of KSh 250,000 or a bond of KSh 300,000.

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Proofreading by Otukho Jackson, a multimedia journalist and copy editor at TUKO.co.ke