Thomas Kiptoo has been charged in an Eldoret court with eight counts of charges including falsely pretending to be an employee of the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK).
Kiptto was today arraigned before Eldoret Senior Principal Magistrate Richard Odenyo charged with others not before the court, was arrested on Monday morning by officers drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) after falsely obtaining money on diverse dates from Two-time Paris Marathon champion Paul Lonyangata.
Lonyangata was suspended for 19 months by Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) in February this year after admitting that he had used a prohibited substance Furosemide.
According to the charge sheet, the accused holds both Kenyan and Ugandan citizenship, is said to have convinced Lonyangata to give him money ranging between Sh. 5,000 and Sh. 500,000 on diverse dates in 2021 to get his name expunged from the AIU list of suspended athletes.
Kiptoo who goes with two other aliases as Ali Thamer Kamal and Thomas Kiprotich denied all the charges and was released on a sh. 200,000 bond with an assurity of a similar amount or a cash bail of sh. 100,000.