Intelligence: Ducit terror rebel transacted Ksh100 million blood dollars jackpot

Image result for dusit terrorDetails by police intelligence as investigations continue have emerged as six more suspects were arraigned in connection to last week’s terror attack.

In a sworn affidavit, Inspector Monica Githaiga of the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit told the court that Abdinoor Maalim Osmail, a graduate of Kenya School of Law currently undergoing pupillage, received the cash in the past few months.
The money is suspected to have been meant to fund terrorism.

The six; Hassan Abdi Nur, Ismael Sadiq Abitham, Ali Khamisi Ali, Abdinoor Maalim Ismail, Abdullahi Mohamed Hassan and Sophia Njoki Mbogo, were accused of financing the attack that left 21 dead.Image result for mpesa

Hassan Abdi Nur allegedly operated 52 M-Pesa shops; 47 of which were said to have been registered between October and December 2018.

The M-Pesa businesses reportedly received huge amounts of money from various places including South Africa and sent some to Somalia.

Ismael Sadiq Abitham, on the other hand, was a social media representative at Horizon TV station, and was said to be in constant communication with attack ring leader Ali Salim Gichunge and his wife Violet Kemunto.

Ali Khamisi Ali was arrested on Tuesday and was said to have several contacts in Somalia believed to be of Al Shabab sympathisers. Together with Ismael Sadiq Abitham, they were also alleged to have been in communication Gichunge and Kemunto.

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Abdinoor Maalim Ismail was also arrested on Tuesday and told officers he is a Law student currently doing his pupillage. According to court documents, he has a number of sim cards registered under his name through which he has allegedly received over Ksh.100 million.

Abdullahi Mohamed Hassan operates a parcel business and is suspected to have transferred various parcels to various locations besides also being in communication with Gichunge.

Sophia Njoki Mbogo, a branch manager at Diamond Trust Bank in Eastleigh, was arrested on Wednesday. She allegedly withdrew huge chunks of money from the branch despite no report ever being made to the police.Image result for southafrica kenya somalia route

Investigators requested 30 days to detain the respondents pending completion of investigations but the court, however, gave the respondents time to file responding affidavits following requests by their counsels.

The suspects will now respond to the application by the investigators to continue detaining them on Thursday after their advocates requested for time to reply via sworn affidavits.

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