A suspect implicated in the ongoing investigations where Sameer Africa Finance Director Akif Hamid Butt was conned off Sh10 million has led detectives to a house where detectives found large sums of money stashed in metal boxes.
Sources say a quantity of United States and Kenyan counterfeit currency and related counterfeit making equipment was seized in the raid.
Among others things was gold of unknown value.
Police have raided a house associated with ‘Fake Uhuru’ con suspects in Ruiru and found billions of shillings in fake foreign currency. pic.twitter.com/WQ03pm17Yz— ZAHRA’S DAD (@Mr_Sarapai) February 27, 2019
The raid was a successful police mission to protecting the nation’s financial infrastructure which a vital component.
Corruption and crime have become high-profile concerns in Kenya. In 2018 two foreigners and a Kenyan were found with fake currency in Westlands, Nairobi.
Detectives said the suspects, Mr Abdulah Tamba and his son Abdoulaye Tamba, who hail from Mali, and the Kenyan, Mr Anthony Mwangangi — their driver — were arrested with more than Sh1 billion in foreign currency.