Eight suspects who were arrested early this week for allegedly defrauding foreigners trillions of dollars were on Friday charged with several counts of fraud.
Peter Kisanya Modaya, Noah Othiambo Ouma, Peter Mikisi Aura, Kayombo Jean Karenga, Brian Waweru Njoroge, Moses Otieno Oduor, Mercy Cheptoo and Charity Njeri Gachuhi were charged conspiring to defraud Omid Kharkhaneh USD 36,000 by falsely pretending they were in a position to facilitate transportation of USD 4,000,000,000 from Kenya to Dubai.
It is alleged that they conspired to defraud a Dubai National of thousands of US Dollars pretending to be in a position to facilitate transportation of the said USD from Kenya to Dubai.
The prosecution also alleged that they were found in possession of 13,800 forged USD currency notes for one hundred denominations without lawful authority or excuse.
They were also charged with another count of being in possession of three military boots, two jungle green trousers, two military jackets, and Two Angola Shorts resembling Administration Police Service Uniforms.
They denied the charge before Principal Magistrate Gilbert Shikwe at Milimani Law Courts and through their lawyers asked the court to grant them bail.
However, they were detained until November 20,2023 when the court will issue its ruling on whether they will be released on bail.
On Wednesday, the DCI had claimed that the eight had defrauded an astounding USD 439 Trillion from two Dutch citizens.
In their statement, the DCI said the Operations Support Unit detectives nabbed eight suspects in a USD 439 trillion mega fraud targeting two foreign businessmen from Netherlands.
They further said in the ongoing operation at a warehouse located in Nairobi,several boxes stashed with fake US dollars, suspected stolen jungle fatigues for APS officers, military boots, customs reflector jackets among other recoveries have also being seized.
According to DCI, in this orchestrated fraudulent scheme, the foreigners were contacted through aWhatsApp call by a number registered in the name ‘Canopy Shield Agencies’, by a caller who informed them that their consignment of 40 pallets had been held at the Kenya Customs Warehouse pending duty fee payment of USD 36,000.
Allegedly, the complainants had entered into a cash on transit deal involving USD 439 trillion destined for Dubai from the Central Bank of Togo.
The caller who posed as a customs officer convinced the complainants that the first batch of 40 pallets contained USD 4 billion and that they were being flown through Kenya to facilitate
Booking a flight to the country, the foreign nationals landed at the Jomo Kenyatta Intn’l Airport (JKIA) hoping to clear the required duty fee at once.
Unbeknownst to the fraudsters that detectives had got wind of the ongoingscontact person led the two foreigners at the warehouse where the purported consignment was being held.
