Armed gangsters who attacked a diplomat at her home in Nairobi on June 27 went on a shopping spree after withdrawing money from her accounts. They also used her credit cards to buy expensive alcohol and foodstuff as per police reports.
According to the investigators, the suspects also transferred money from the Europe and Commonwealth Directorate Director Jean Kimani's M-Pesa to other mobile numbers alleged to be those of their relatives and friends.
Police records indicate that the suspects were captured on CCTV cameras inside the supermarket pushing trolleys full of foodstuff and other household items. The footages were forwarded to investigators from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Special Crime Prevention Unit.
According to The Standard, the diplomat informed the police that the suspects accessed the compound using a master key, which they used to open the gate and doors to the main house. Two men were armed with knives while one had a pistol.
The gunmen stormed the diplomat’s Kileleshwa home on the night of June 27. She was alone in the house. They found her in the kitchen preparing a meal.
She also narrated that they threatened to kill her, before gagging her mouth and tying her hands.
They then ransacked the house and stole a 52-inch television set worth Sh40,000, a printer worth Sh30,000, mobile phones worth Sh60,000 and jewelry worth Sh300,000 before escaping in the diplomat’s Toyota Prado with the items.
On Friday, an identification parade was conducted by the police and the diplomat picked out her attackers. Those in police custody include the gardener and a second man hired to repair a gate at the home.
This was after police arrested the suspects roaming in the city streets in the stolen car, three days after the robbery.
Police investigations have pointed to possible collusion between the suspects and the diplomat’s domestic workers.
“We are still analysing their phones to establish a communication pattern,” Special Crime Prevention Unit boss Pius Gitari revealed on Friday.
