A week following blogger Edgar Obare’s revelation, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have identified three people accused of money laundering.
The three were apprehended on the night of Thursday, September 2, by DCI’s Transnational Organized Crime investigators at an apartment in Nairobi’s upmarket Kileleshwa estate, according to a statement.
The suspects were found in possession of a variety of phony local and foreign currency, as well as equipment thought to be used in the fabrication of fake currencies, according to the DCI. Even as the inquiry moves further, the three are being questioned.
The detectives acting on intelligence had launched an operation at Midea Apartment’s house number 101, therein ambushing Abdulaziz Ibrahim Hassan, 54, Dorcas Ntoya, 34 and 26-year-old Arum Bob Busimbi.
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The three are believed to be part of a syndicate that is behind the rising cases of money laundering, commonly known as wash wash.
Several fake US dollar notes in denominations of 100 and a machine believed to be used in developing the fake notes were found in the house, before the search was extended to the basement parking.
In a Honda Fit KCY 695X owned by one of the suspects, detectives recovered three copies of a fake letter purportedly from Central Bank of Kenya, notifying receipt of Sh 10billion, two copies of United Nation invoices, a forged anti-money laundering clearance certificate, a packet of white powder labeled ‘Best Quality Laundry Starch’, a bottle containing a bluish substance, 45 USD notes in 100 denominations and 166 notes of Kenyan currency in Sh1000 denominations.
