A game of hide and seek between a wanted suspect and detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) ended with the latter raiding the fugitive's house on Tuesday, March 22.
Following a tip-off from the members of the public the suspect, accused of being a serial imposter was arrested at his Nairobi home.
The detectives said that they were investigating a case where the suspect was accused to have forged governments documents and defrauded millions from both local and foreign businessmen in the country.
On Tuesday, March 22, DCI detailed that the suspect posed as a senior officer from various government ministries to hoodwink merchants.
"The scammer who has over 10 pending cases in different courts has been engaging detectives in hide and seek games before he was finally cornered," DCI said in its statement.
In his scheme that was well choreographed, the imposter first manufactured fraudulent tender documents and local purchase orders before convincing potential bidders and suppliers with the assurance that he will offer them lucrative tenders from different government ministries.
One unsuspecting businessman who fell for the scam lost Ksh47.3 million, as reported by the DCI.
For this case, the accused forged tender documents for Ministries of Interior and Labour under Cabinet Secretaries Fred Matiang'i and Simon Chelugui respectively.
In another instance, he reportedly impersonated an official from the Ministry of Defence and swindled a foreign national Ksh26 million.
To enable him to execute his fraud scheme, the suspect was said to have opened a company based in Nairobi through which he worked with proxies from the government ministries to secure access to boardrooms and convince his clients.
Police noted that they were tracking the insiders who will be charged with aiding and abating crime.
He also donned well-trimmed suits cutting a figure of senior procurement manager capable of awarding lucrative tenders to merchants.
"Innocent merchants, who mostly comprise of young ladies and foreigners looking for investment opportunities are then convinced that they have met the boss and part with colossal sums of money to influence the award of the contracts in their favour.
"They are then issued fake local purchase orders to supply the goods before he stages his disappearance," DCI stated.
The suspect will be arraigned before Milimani Law Courts on Wednesday, March 23 to answer charges levelled against him.
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