A group of four men have been released on a Sh500,000 bail after pleading not guilty to charges of stealing money running into millions of shillings.
Mr Fredrick Herman Otiya, Daniel Orero Okindo, George Gachungui Njoroge and John Otieno Makambogo were charged before a Nairobi court following a string of robberies in Barclays Bank ATMs.
“The accused persons jointly conspired with others not before court to commit the said crimes between April 1 and 16,” the court was told.
In the Easter week Barclays bank lost a whopping Sh11 million after four ATMs were broken into and money stolen.
While a number of Kenyans traveled upcountry the four are suspected to have been a busy group, minting money from the ATMs around the city.
Sleuths believe the robberies may have been coordinated given the manner in which they happened.
CCTV cameras were obstructed, the ATMs went unmanned and the machines were tampered with.
The first Sh6.2 million was stolen in Mutinda after the TM was loaded with Sh7 million.
Another ATM was to be later vandalized and Sh4.3 million at the Kenyatta National Hospital.