Nine employees attached to the spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) sacco, Njiwa Savings and Credit Sacco Society have been arrested in connection to alleged Sh160million fraud.
Njiwa Sacco belongs to NIS staff.
The suspects were rounded up following comprehensive joint investigations, conducted by detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and officials from the spy agency.
The nine include Amos Kipchumba who was the Internal Auditor, the Loans Manager Violet Wali, Caren Langat (Accountant) and System Analysts Hamisi Zaunga and Miriam Nthenya.
Others are a Teller identified as Nicodemus Osiemo, Eric Rono from Sure-step Systems, Moses Ntoinya an NIS officer who is said to have allegedly colluded with the sacco staff to siphon the funds and Tony Wabomba, a former employee of the sacco society.
They have since been dismissed from service.
They will be arraigned tomorrow to face nine counts of conspiracy to commit a felony, stealing by servant, false accounting by servant, negligence, computer fraud, forgery, uttering a false document, access with intent to commit an offence among other charges.
Meanwhile, detectives are on the trail of three other suspects who have since gone into hiding.
