Ever thought of imitating your President just so that you make away with Millions through unscruplous means?
Well, some seven Kenyans did not just think about it, they actually executed it and boom! they were 10 million shillings richer without having to fire a bullet or use force.
Joseph Waswa, Duncan Muchai, Isaac Wajekeche, William Simiyu, David Luganya, Gilbert Kirunja and Anthony Wafula have just gone down in history as Kenya’s most cunning and daring criminals.
It is for this reason that State Prosecution is seeking Court orders to allow it detain the 7 suspects for 10 days.
The Prosecution has stated that the complexity of the investigations and the number of suspects involved, including some who are still at large calls for more time to compelete investigations hence the need to detain the suspects.
He Prosecutor Edwin Okello told the court that the investigations will involve going through voluminous documents including bank documents and call data records.
“The nature of investigations in this case is complex since it requires communication data from several service providers which ordinarily requires time. We need to establish the details of the bank account which was used to defraud Sh10 million and the signatories to the account, “ he said.
Magistrate Peter Ooko dismissed the prosecution application saying none of the seven work with any mobile service provider or at the bank where the said Sh10 million was deposited.
“I do not know how the suspects would interfere with the banks as the bank account stated by the prosecution is for a suspect Reuben Njuguna who is not present in court,”
The complainant, Akif Hamid Butt, the Finance Director of Sameer Africa, allegedly wired the Sh10 million via electronic money transfer from Sameer Africa Bank account to an Equity Bank account in the name of Reuben Njuguna. Njuguna has not been presented in court.
It was for those reasons that Ooko failed to find any compelling reasons to detain the seven. He immediately ordered they either be charged or discharged by close of yesterday.
This prompted the State to prepare and register a charge sheet four hours later. The seven were then presented before Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi a few minutes to 5pm. But the magistrate directed they be arraigned today since it was past working hours.
According to the charge sheet, Waswa, Muchai, Wajekeche, Simiyu, Luganya, Kirunja and Wafula are accused of obtaining Sh10 million from Akif Hamid Butt by falsely pretending they could sell to Sameer Africa a parcel of land known as LR No. 10090/118 in Milimani area, Nairobi.