UPDATE ON OPERATION UCHUMI
During an operation today in the Kirigiti neighborhood of Kiambu County, a multi-agency team made up of officers from the Kenya Revenue Authority and DCI Headquarters’ Economic and Commercial Crimes Unit recovered over 3800 counterfeit drink bottles, including Chrome, Kibao, Aquila, and Trace gins.
The same house also yielded 3 sacks full of various bottle caps, 24,000 pieces of fake KRA stamps, 260 liters of ethanol, and 3440 pieces of empty bottles.
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AS THE SH94.9M THIEVERY PROBE GAINS MOMENTUM, FOUR WELLS FARGO STAFF IN CUFFS.
Upon conducting a comprehensive examination of the forensic evidence, investigators hunting for those connected to the November 6 theft of more than Sh94.9 million by Wells Fargo employees while it was in transit have detained four additional suspects, who are all workers of the courier and security firm.
The four individuals are Joel Oyuchi Mweseli, controller/planner; Harrison Mugendi Njeru, fleet supervisor; and Ronald Ouma Oluu, in charge of crew commanders.
In addition to their dereliction of duty, it is thought that the two main suspects, Daniel Mugetha and Anthony Nduiki, who are still at large, plotted with the four staff members who are spending the weekend as guests of the state.
With the arrest of today, eight theFour more suspects were apprehended in the daring theft a few days ago, and almost Sh9 million was discovered in a jerrycan at a residence in Roysambu.
The remaining suspects are still being sought, with those seized today chilling at Capitol Hill Police Station pending arraignment at Milimani Law Courts on Monday 27t
The estimated value of the illicit recovery is Ksh 7,836,500, less Ksh 2,774,551.49 in exercise duty loss and Ksh 1,253,840 in VAT loss.
After the appropriate legal processes are completed, the recovered goods
The two suspects, Daniel Mungai Mugetha (crew commander) and Anthony Nduiki Waigumo (driver), slipped the truck out of the company’s Nairobi premises immediately after the money-box was loaded, leaving the police escort car behind.
The armed escort team went to the management to inquire why the loading was taking so long, oblivious that the truck no. KBA 517T they were to escort had snaked away minutes earlier. By the time the investigation was completed, neither the truck nor the crew members could be located.
According to a report by the company’s Investigations Manager, the Isuzu Canter was bound for a bank on Nairobi’s Kenyatta Avenue, ferrying Sh94 million belonging to a well-known supermarket in the country.