Five suspects are in custody after defrauding a Korean national Sh2.9 million, on the pretext that they would sell him gold in Karen, Nairobi County.
Robinson Gitau, Livai Kombo, Fatuma Mohammed, Eva Kimotho, together with the Cameroonian identified as Utia Kugi, are said to have used accomplices to direct Song Sung to their supposed company premises, Ekweme Enterprises, in the upmarket neighbourhood where he was shown the purported gold bars.
According to Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) the accomplices afterwards made away with the money Sung offered for the bars, where he raised an alarm to the police.
“After completing their initial investigations, serious crimes detectives decoyed the five suspects into a snare and arrested all of them,” DCI states.
Steel boxes of the fake gold bars were recovered in the incident, while the five are in police custody awaiting arraignment.
Following an upsurge in similar cases, the DCI is cautioning foreigners intending to venture into the gold business, to be on the lookout for fraudsters out to steal from them.