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Butere aspirant linked to bank accounts trickery He is said to be the mastermind of an international cartel
Sh250,ooo to a primary Tindy International at KCB. The Butere constituency The manager remembers school, a case of which now parliamentary aspirant that after some time again, the C1D is keenly following Nicholas Tindi alias Tindi he received another email, with a view of digging out Wa Mwale is facing serious this time the email was more on how the stolen charges of allegedly stealing instructing him to wire money was spent. It is Shi,850,ooo from Housing Sh4oo,ooo to an account in likely some head teachers
Finance Corporation of the US which made him to and church leaders will be
Kenya on May 9 2014 through believe even more that he prosecuted alongside Tindi his firm, Tindy International was all this time dealing with for handling stolen property. One of the C1D officers at Kenya Commercial Bank the owner. Little did he know that he who is following the case A/C 1135667305 The aspirant who has was a victim of international said they have written to been campaigning to conmen who fleece accounts the Attorney General to give capture Butere seat from the owners millions of shillings. direction on the action to be incumbent AndrewToboso is
The cartel targets taken to the headmasters of diaspora account holders the recipient schools where he with others not before the who transact using emails it is established that it is the court stole Shi,850,000 by mostly thus avoiding same stolen money their fraudulently impersonating security details that would institutions received. a customer who lives in the have helped banks to nab the Other investigations have US. criminals. been launched by Interpol It is alleged that Tindi, to establish the recipient of While appearing in court the money which was wired in company of some West Africans, hacked into Flora last time, Mwale's lawyer to the US where sources Nyanchama Omani's email applied for the case to be indicate it could have been
charged that on May 9 2014,
who lives in the US and owns an account with HFC
and falsely instructed the customer relations manager to transfer with speed Shi,850,000 to an account at the Kenya Commercial Bank
to clear some outstanding effects.
Insiworncotirtpapers, the
customer relations manager says that on May 9 2014, he received an email that
looked genuind and he could not even think for a second
that it was not the owner
as all diaspora accounts are
processed with customers' sending instructions through emails and subsequently accounts processed as per the instructions.
He says that after going through the email, he
followed all the banking procedures and forwarded the instructions to his
colleagues who in effect transferred the money to the
settled out of court perhaps i n
sent to Mwale's elder brother
fear of the details coming out Julius who has been staying in publicand jeopardising his in US since 2001 but who chances of getting elected in also is on a police wanted list Butere, but the manager who in Kenya for disappearing received the email and who with uncleared bill of Sh3.4 is also charged alongside million owed to Norfolk Tindi objected to out of Hotel. court settlement as he wants The man, Julius Mwale, the matter heard to its final came back to Kenya in 2010 conclusion. and raised storm in the Sources close to Mwale
Kenyan media when he
indicated that they have sensationallyclaimed thathis been wondering how the Company SBA Technologies, man with a history of incorporated in New York struggling even to pay rent was in the process of doing in Donholm had suddenly an IPO on Nasdaq where broken into big money that they were going to list lopcof he was dishing out in Butere the company shares for sale as he campaigns. in order to raise $700 million The guy has been all over to add to the company's schools writing cheques revenues which he claimed for bursary in the name stood at $100 million then. of helping the needy and The man then gave his making countless pledges address as 445 Park Avenue of donating big money to 9th and 10th floor, different projects. New York, NY 1002 and At one point, he gave almost succeeded in fooling
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Kenyan media that ne was in theman to the security which seen the guy, did not know
international cartel that is
again managed to trick him, and the only remote fleecing banks millions of the league of big boys. To spice up his story, the that they accompany him connection was him being shillings. According to inside man said he was an exKenya to his brother's office who the MP for Butere where Airforce who went in exile to
was a minister in Kibaki's
save his neck after getting government who will give in to bad books with Moi them a cheque. On hearing of the title regime in 2001 but doing of the minister, the security well all the same. The management of relaxed* and decided to Norfork Hotel blew the lid accompany the guy to the on the man when it became ministry of Planning where apparent that he was unable the minister being referred to pay the accumulated bill to was the current governor of £>113.4 million and handed for Kakamega who had never
Julius was born.
sources, banks have been
While the accompanying hit hard by this cartel in security officers waited for refunding their customers Julius at the reception area, and litigation costs.
the man exited the building through the stairs down and
that was the last time he was
seen in Kenya.
Police now say they have reasons to be sure he is the mastermind of the
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