Nairobi News

Four suspects were arrested and charged on Monday in Nairobi for allegedly attempting to steal Sh800,000 from Barclays and Sidian Banks.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the four were identified as Mr Haroon Sindiki Abdullatif, Mr Rajnani Irofan Kamruddin, Mr Abdullahi Haji and Mr Tampul Tobiko.

“Four suspects were yesterday charged before the Milimani court for attempting to steal Ksh.884,876 from Sidian Bank and the Barclays Bank Limited through fraudulent means. The four were arrested while conducting a cash withdrawal of Sh600,000 from a #parallel bank account,” the DCI Tweeted on Tuesday.

#Charged:Four suspects were yesterday charged before the Milimani court for attempting to steal Ksh.884,876 from Sidian Bank& the Barclays Bank Limited through fraudulent means.The four were arrested while conducting a cash withdrawal of Ksh.600,000 from a #parallel bank account.

— DCI KENYA (@DCI_Kenya) August 21, 2018

The DCI said the suspects had opened an account in a customer’s name and it was being used as a conduit for stolen and diverted cheques meant for crediting the Barclays Bank account.

On Monday, four employees of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) who are accused of stealing Sh72 million from clients’ accounts were also charged.

The suspects were arrested after it was detected that they raided customers accounts and transferred money in instalments – all amounting to Sh72 million over a period of time.

They, however, denied the charges when they were arraigned at the Mombasa Law courts and have been freed on a cash bail of Sh100,000 or bond of Sh200,000 each

The Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti previously advised banks to always do regular background checks on their employees following the rise of such cases in commercial banks and other financial institutions.

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