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Inspectors from the Nairobi Central Police Station arrested three other suspects linked to the spiral swindle of sim trading among the ongoing investigations.
The three people who include Joseph Kuria Kariuki, Grace Wanjira, and Meshack Okoth Okuta were arrested Tuesday as part of a scam that saw an MCA from Kiambu lose 1.9 million Shi.
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An official communication from the National Police Service via Twitter indicated that one of the main suspects is a Safaricom customer service manager, but has since been fired.
… suspects one of them to be employed in a local bank where the plaintiff had put his money in the bank. We call on members of the public to refrain from giving personal data to unknown people or to answer strange calls or messages asking for the same thing. 3/3
– National Police Service-Kenya (@NPSOfficial_KE) July 24, 2018
Police also say that she is making progress in simulated exchange fraud since it was unearthed.
"The detectives are getting closer that can lead to the arrest of two other suspects, one of them an employee of a local bank where the plaintiff had put his money in the bank. "
However, they call Kenyans to refrain from sharing personal information with unknown individuals or responding to strange calls or messages.
Last Friday, detectives arrested two people in connection with fraud cases involving SIM cards.
The suspects, a Safaricom employee, Maurice Musoti, and a Jomo Kenyatta university engineering student, Rian Obaga Nyagaka, were in possession of 2,160 unused Safaricom SIM cards, 44 used cards, five phone numbers, Cashiers, three MPESA Safaricom booklets and an Internet booster router.
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A laptop, two mobile phones; a BlackBerry and Samsung J7 were also captured in the swop.
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