Kenyan based self-proclaimed entrepreneur and investor Charle Kinuthia has been handed two years imprisonment over training scam.
“A court in #Kigali #Rwanda has given two years of prison to a Kenyan citizen, Charles Kinuthia, for conning thousands of youth in fake a training in Kigali,” posted BBC journalist, Roncliffe Odit, on Twitter.
Kinuthia was found culpable after thousands of Rwandans lost at least Ksh500 each that they had paid to attend the wealth conference which was purportedly set for June 25.
Crowds thronged the advertised venue for the ‘conference’ only to be met with the loudest rejection message that it was a well-orchestrated con game.
The botched event, dubbed Money Wealth and Business Conference, was to be held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in the same country.
Kinuthia was, billed to be the main speaker, was reported to have arrived at the event shell-shocked like the rest.
Attendants who bought tickets for the event claimed that they were promised over Ksh20,000 each after the contest.
“I sold my harvest and borrowed some from my neighbours, promising them I will come back rich. What am I going to tell them?” Mimi Uwahiyamana questioned.
According to BBC, the venue was full of hopeful participants but the organizers never showed up.
It took the intervention of Rwanda’s Youth Minister, Rose Mary Mbabazi, to calm the angry youths.