Baclay’s bank fake money suspects to be detained for more days

The court has ruled on detaining the barclays bank fake money suspects for another five days to complete investigations.

The Four Erick Adede, Ahmed Shah, Elizabeth Muthoni, Irene Wairimu Kimani were arraigned at a Milimani law court.

However two of the bank officials Boaz Ochich and Charles Manzi who were initially arrested alongside the four suspects will now be state witnesses.

Detectives had wanted to detain the four suspects for 10 days.

However the defence lawyers objected to the application, saying the accused have already been in detention longer than the stipulated time.

 The owner of the safe deposit box was a former Rangwe MP aspirant.

The suspects were arrested on Tuesday evening after Flying Squad officers went to Barclays Bank, Queensway branch, and confiscated Sh2.9 billion in fake foreign currency.

Fake gold was later seized on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, a lawyer of one of the suspects insinuated the claims the cash is fake had not been ascertained. 

The fake cash matter will mentioned on March 26, 2019.

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