The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has arrested one Kenyan suspect to have scammed a Georgian national in a suspected fake gold syndicate.
In a statement on Thursday, May 2, DCI said the suspect was arrested at a home within Utawala’s Githunguri area in a night raid where cash in fake US dollars and fake gold nuggets found therein were confiscated.
The DCI said the arrest follows a complaint by a Georgian national who lost over USD 6 million ( Ksh. 822 Million) to fake gold racketeers who duped him into a 161,000kg gold deal.
“Thuranira M’mburi was arrested last night by the Operations Support detectives, in a house where about 23,600 notes (100 denominations) in fake US currency stuffed in two traveling bags and a steel box were found,” read the DCI statement in part.
“Also seized were the fake gold nuggets in eight green canvas bags weighing approximately 10kg each.”
DCI Arrests Kenyan Who Scammed Foreigner of Ksh 822M
In the multi-million fake gold scam, the merchant of Georgia descent is reported to have traded tonnes of gold bars with a Ghanaian partner through a letter of administration presented before the High Court of Justice in Ghana.
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Thereafter, he spent USD 6,090,500 (Ksh. 822 million) as costs incurred on movement of the consignment from Ghana to Kenya, documentation and storage services.
However, preliminary investigations by OSU detectives revealed that the victim was duped from the word ‘Go’ by a well-organized ring of scammers whose names and machinations are not new to court records.
It was also revealed that no such amounts of real or fake gold were ever transported to Kenya from Ghana.
Further established is that scammers in countries believed to mine gold are conspiring with local and foreign accomplices stationed at Kenya’s capital (Nairobi) to fleece clueless merchants.
Nairobi, according to the statement, has been a strategic transit route for the precious metal from most African countries to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)and other countries.
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Scamming Cases
Cases of Kenyans obtaining money by false pretenses, conspiracy to commit a felony, and forgery to foreigners have been recently witnessed in the country.
In February this year, the DCI detectives intercepted two containers filled with fake products at the port of Mombasa that were set for shipping to China.
According to DCI, the containers were said to have been filled with tantalum minerals from Congo. However, upon inspection, one of the containers was found to have been filled with sand.
The officers picked up on the matter when one of the containers he had anticipated arrived and he realized that it was filled with soil. The Chinese were expecting three containers of minerals from the said Kenyans.
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