The Director of Criminal Investigations have announced that detectives today afternoon arrested three men namely #AbdoulayeTamba, #AbdallaTamba (both nationals of #Chad)& #AnthonyMwangangi, a Kenyan, who is their driver following a tip-off from members of public. The three were found with over a billion fake currency. The three men were arrested in an apartment within Nairobi by the #Flyingsquad officers who also managed to recover the fake currency which was in dollars and Euros. #CommunityPolicing
The racket is alleged to have been scamming Kenyans with promise of doubling their money.
The three men were arrested in an apartment within Nairobi by the #Flyingsquad officers who also managed to recover the fake currency which was in dollars and Euros. #CommunityPolicing. pic.twitter.com/Wyregi3g62
— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) October 1, 2018
As reported by the Standard “In another room, the police also found strange objects in form of animal skin and beads believed to be used by the suspects for witchcraft purposes. The police say that one suspect managed to escape, but one of the suspects from Mali is believed to be the mastermind of the whole crime and has been living in the country as an immigrant for ten years. According to the officer in charge of the flying squad Musa Yego, said that the suspects are immigrants and have been carrying out illegal activities in the country, the men have been conning desperate Kenyans with empty promises of making them wealthy using witchcraft.