Police are holding in custody a city shopkeeper who is accused of defrauding two businesswomen Sh9 million.
Phelix Oduru reportedly defrauded Damaris Atambo and Jackeline Nzula of Sh9,050,000 in Westlands, Nairobi.
According to reports, Oduru and his accomplices pretended to be in a position to sell the businesswomen a herbicide product, namely Pramitol 25 E, a fact they knew to be false.
Nzula and Atambo were reportedly informed by a friend of a business opportunity to supply the herbicide to a company in Nairobi.
The businesswomen together with their friend, met at Umoja where they discussed the business deal and agreed to venture into it.
After supplying the goods, the person who introduced them went behind their back and withdrew the supplies from the company with the intention of selling them to a different client and this prompted the procurement officer to alert the two women.
The two picked up the goods from their friend and took them back to the company but they were not accepted.
They were left looking for a different client and were connected to a person alleged to be in the UK who asked for more money in order to get them a buyer’s order.
From there, the two were taken in circles while being asked to inject more money and that is when they learned that they were dealing with a syndicate.
They reported the matter to the police and Oduru was arrested.
