Detectives from the flying squad department have busted a safe in Nairobi’s Barclays bank , Queens Way Branch that is believed to have been deposited Ksh 17 billion fake currency by conmen.
The flying squad detectives together with officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) camped at the bank after it emerged that a customers had brought in a haul of fake cash.
The ‘Mysterious’ unnamed client only known to the operators at the bank is said to have been keeping fake dollars in one of the bank’s safe then bringing potential investors to the bank to see his ‘largesse’ and police suspect he was on a mission to con the business people.
He was cornered by the officers on Tuesday morning after he came to check on his ‘wealth’ running into ‘billions of shillings’.
Operations at the bank were temporarily disrupted as the contingent, which arrived in several vehicles, alighted, stormed the banking hall on Kenyatta Avenue and started searching for the fake bills.