In a case of outright blackmail by fraudsters who intend to benefit financially from prominent personalities, by tainting their images online & demanding money not to post ‘scandalous’ information about them, detectives have once again arrested serial fraudster, Edgar Obare.
The suspect who has had previous run-ins with the law for publishing false & malicious information regarding individuals and their families is once again a guest of the state. Detectives from the Cybercrime unit have uncovered an underworld network of criminals involving
young ladies recruited by Obare, to stalk prominent personalities in political, business and religious circles for monetary exploitation. They ladies are then coached by Obare, on how to ensnare the victims into their traps then extort unimaginable sums of money from them.
In the current case facing the fraudster, one Desy Oduor Achieng his co-accused, had been coached how to stalk a prominent governor with the hope of extorting Sh.10 Million from him. Obare had shared the governor’s number with her and instructed her to tell him that she was
pregnant with his child & that she would tell the whole world about their little secret. When the governor did not respond, she was instructed to threaten him that she would share photos that they had allegedly taken in compromising situations but the governor did not respond.
Dejected that their plan wasn’t working, Edgar took to his social media pages accusing the governor of impregnating a lady and failing to take responsibility.The supposedly pregnant lady wasn’t aware that all along, Edgar was taking screenshots of their conversations & her photos
which he posted alongside his claims. Fearing the repercussions of Edgar’s actions, she reported the matter to DCI offices in Nyali. Detectives have since established that the lady isn’t pregnant as she had claimed.
Further, the lady has said that she has never met the governor, adding that she had only been recruited by Edgar, to extort money from the governor. She has since been arrested alongside her tutor Edgar Obare and they will face Publishing false information charges,
contrary to sec.23 of the computer misuse and cybercrime act, 2018.
Young ladies are cautioned to be wary of such fraudsters out to exploit them for their selfish gains and are advised to find alternative sources of income. #FichuakwaDCI USIOGOPE! 0800722203
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The public is hereby WARNED never to buy any electronic gadget including laptops, mobile phones, TV sets etc from an individual or a dealer who has no fixed Physical Address, that is, identifiable trading premises with requisite authorization>>>
>>documents that are conspicuously displayed, including licenses, permits & other local and/or national approvals.
Whenever buying, insist on issuance of a receipt clearly itemizing the particulars of the bought gadget.
Always keep the receipt or secure it electronically by>>
>>>photographing and archiving it in a reliable system.
It is Risky & Dangerous to buy any electronic device from suspicious outlets.
Most are those who buy stolen items from armed gangsters who have violently robbed innocent citizens, and in the process killed or maimed them.
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Acting on forensic intelligence, the team drawn from the Crime >>>
>>Research and Intelligence Bureau, Special Service Unit, DCI Dagoretti and their Kisii counterparts, proceeded to the said village within Suneka sub-county, where two mobile phones previously paired to the deceased's simcards were tracked down.
The first phone make Samsung>>>
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Five other people including the traffic officer, were seriously injured in the 8am incident, that left travelers at the Kisumu bus stage scampering for dear life. The assailant, who was allegedly dressed in a balaclava only revealing his eyes had attacked the officer from behind
pushing him on the tarmac. A struggle then ensued and the assailant managed to unholster the firearm from the officer’s waist, chambered a cartridge and shot him at the pelvic, the bullet exiting through the stomach. With the firearm a semi automatic Ceska Pistol in his hands
Today the Cabinet Secretary-Information and Communication Technology Hon Joe Mucheru graced the handover occasion of an assortment of forensic investigations equipment donated to the DCI by the Federal Republic of Germany through it's embassy in Kenya.
Specialized crime investigation kits & dozens of video & photographic cameras with accessories formed part of the over Shs 27M worth of donations, besides three furnished simulation rooms the embassy has developed at NPS Training College-Kiganjo, DCI Academy & DCI Headquarters.
Receiving the aid from the German Ambassador to Kenya H.E. Thomas Wimmer, Hon Mucheru lauded the good gesture by the German government, recalling the many times its cooperation had facilitated training for the Directorate's detectives both locally and abroad.
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The two; 47-yr-old Grace Akinyi Misiani and Nelly Achieng' >>>
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In the latter incident, a 27-yr-old woman had at>>
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Detectives from the Serious Crimes Unit yesterday recovered over 1,700 bales of stolen Kenya seed company’s, hybrid Maize certified seeds, valued at over Sh7 Million from a private warehouse in Narok town.
In what the serious crimes busters described as a well coordinated syndicate, involving a store supervisor at Narok’s Kenya Seed Company Branch, Brian Meja and two Narok-based unscrupulous traders of Asian origin only known as Yogesh and Gaurav,
they raided a facility leased by Meja a distance from Kenya Seed’s main godown, where the recovery was made. Detectives uncovered that the stolen high yielding seeds of variety 6213, are transported in two Probox vehicles daily and held at Meja’s store temporarily,