Man arrested for conning foreigner over Ksh.800M in fake gold deal

Police in Nairobi have arrested a person over his
alleged involvement within the provide of 161,000kg of faux gold, which led to
duping a Georgian nationwide of USD 6,090,500 (Ksh.822.2 million).

Frederick
Thuranira M’mburi was nabbed by the Operations Assist Unit detectives at his
residence in Utawala’s Githunguri space whereas in possession of faux US foreign money and
about 80kgs of faux gold nuggets.

“M’mburi
was arrested on Wednesday night time by the Operations Assist detectives, in a
home the place about 23,600 notes (100 denominations) in faux US foreign money stuffed
in two travelling baggage and a metal field have been discovered,” the Directorate of Prison
Investigations (DCI) mentioned in an announcement.

“Additionally
seized have been the faux gold nuggets in eight inexperienced canvas baggage weighing
roughly 10kg every.”

The
DCI revealed that the Georgian believed he was in a multi-million gold deal
with a Ghanaian associate, who was supposedly transferring the gold consignment from
the West African nation to Kenya.

The Ghanaian was reportedly presupposed to spend
the mentioned quantity on the motion of the consignment in addition to documentation and
storage providers on arrival.

“In
the multi-million faux gold rip-off, the service provider of Georgia reported to have
traded tonnes of gold bars with a Ghanaian associate by way of a letter of
administration earlier than the Excessive Court docket of Justice in Ghana, thereafter spending
USD 6,090,500 on the motion of the consignment from Ghana to Kenya,
documentation and storage providers,” DCI defined.

A
later probe by the detectives would nevertheless unravel that the Georgian had been
scammed from the start, and that no consignment was ever transported from
Ghana to Kenya.

In accordance
to the DCI, there exists a syndicate working between gold-mining nations and Nairobi,
which is the transit path to different nations, to con unsuspecting
businesspeople.

“Preliminary
investigations by OSU detectives reveal that the sufferer was duped from the phrase
‘Go’ by a well-organized ring of scammers whose names and machinations should not
new to court docket information and that no such quantities of actual or faux gold have been ever
transported to Kenya from Ghana,” the DCI famous.

“Additional
established is that scammers in international locations believed to mine gold are conspiring
with native and international accomplices stationed at Kenya’s capital (Nairobi) to
fleece clueless retailers, it being a strategic transit route for the dear
metallic from most African international locations to UAE and different international locations.”