4 more arrested for stealing from top banks

brian oruta

August 21, 2018 5:53 PM

This came after 4 KCB employees were arrested

Four more suspects were on Monday arrested and charged for trying to stealing Sh884, 876 from Sidian and Barclays banks.

According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) the four were nabbed while they tried to withdraw Sh600, 000 from a parallel bank account.

“Four suspects were yesterday charged before the Milimani court for attempting to steal Ksh.884,876 from Sidian Bank& the Barclays Bank Limited through fraudulent means.The four were arrested while conducting a cash withdrawal of Ksh.600,000 from a bank account,” read a tweet from the DCI.

The DCI further said that the suspects Haroon Sindiki Abdullatif, Rajnani Irofan Kamruddin, Abdullahi Haji and Tampul Tobiko were using a customer’s account to channel stolen and diverted cheques meant for crediting Barclays bank.

KCB employees

This comes a day after four employees of the Kenya Commercial Bank were arrested for stealing a total of Sh72,619,951.83 through false claims.

The four employees created a total of 37 fictitious companies and registered them with KCB by making false point of sale card transactions, which they would also approve.

brian oruta