{"id":230228,"date":"2026-04-13T01:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-u-s-based-investor-charles-hill-jr-moves-to-high-court-to-halt-unlawful-criminal-case-over-sh4-5bn-loan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:58:53","slug":"kenya-u-s-based-investor-charles-hill-jr-moves-to-high-court-to-halt-unlawful-criminal-case-over-sh4-5bn-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-u-s-based-investor-charles-hill-jr-moves-to-high-court-to-halt-unlawful-criminal-case-over-sh4-5bn-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: U.S. Based Investor Charles Hill Jr Moves to High Court to Halt &#8216;Unlawful&#8217; Criminal Case Over Sh4.5bn Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 US-based businessman Charles Hill Jr has moved to the High Court seeking to stop ongoing criminal proceedings against him, arguing that the charges are unlawful, discriminatory, and violate his constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Hill, a shareholder in Savannah Heights Limited, has filed a petition naming the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Chief Magistrate&#8217;s Court at Nairobi, and the Attorney General of Kenya as respondents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 US-based businessman Charles Hill Jr has moved to the High Court seeking to stop ongoing criminal proceedings against him, arguing that the charges are unlawful, discriminatory, and violate his constitutional rights. Hill, a shareholder in Savannah Heights Limited, has filed a petition naming the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the Office of the Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9112,6683,10286,6185,9322,7520,6184,11766,20578,4688,430,8828,6858,257,54138,254,2282,11909],"class_list":["post-230228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-based","tag-case","tag-charles","tag-court","tag-criminal","tag-halt","tag-high","tag-hill","tag-investor","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-loan","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-sh4-5bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-unlawful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}