CONSIGNMENT OF COUNTERFEITED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS RECOVERED IN THIKA
A consignment of counterfeit alcoholic drinks has been impounded by detectives following an ongoing operation on high level tax evasion schemes by traders dealing in alcoholic products.
Over 300 cartons containing thousands of bottles of counterfeited spirits destined for the local market were recovered, following the meticulous operation conducted by DCI sleuths and officials from the Kenya Revenue Authority. The counterfeited drinks whose
safety to consumers could not be immediately ascertained, were packaged in branded bottles that are popular with the youth including, Kane Extra, King Vodka, Nest Vodka, Hunters Vodka, Chrome Vodka, Blue Ice Vodka, Konyagi, Triple Ace, Hunters Vodka, K.C Vodka,
Kibao among others. Earlier, the detectives acting on intelligence had raided a residential property at Mugi Court in Makongeni Thika Sub-County, where empty bottles of different brands, hundreds of liters of ethanol and the illegal consignment was confiscated.
KRA officers accompanying our officers during operation also confirmed that the seized drinks had counterfeited revenue stamps affixed on them. The recovery comes days after the detectives arrested suspects engaged in the printing of fake KRA stamps including those from
neighboring countries of Uganda and Tanzania.The ongoing operation follows a recent directive by His Excellency President William Ruto to the police, to conduct intelligence led operations targeting counterfeit goods, after it was
discovered that crooked businessmen had devised new ways of evading taxation.
DETECTIVES RECOVER SH 0.6 MILLION FOLLOWING A MOMBASA SACCO HEIST
An online scammer who mastermind a hi-tech swindle that swept Sh0.9 Million from a Mombasa based micro finance, has been arrested and Sh600,000 recovered. The architect of the heist Francis Mairura,
was smoked out of his hideout in Nyamondo village located at Gucha South in Kisii county.
This is after the sleuths based at DCI’s operations support unit trailed the cash which was siphoned through a breach of the Sacco’s IT systems and transferred to six Mpesa accounts
belonging to the suspect. The high level fraud which occurred on December 31, 2022, was executed between 3:30 to 5pm by the 22-year-old suspect who was at the time oscillating between two houses, one at Witeithie estate in Thika town and the other at Gitambaya in Ruiru.
The DCI Volleyball Queens are promising fireworks as the Kenya Volleyball Federation league play offs begin. The three times Nyerere Cup and Eastern Africa Police champions will be putting up a spirited performance to finish
among the top three teams in the national league. Established in 2018, the team with the youngest players in the Kenyan league dislodged established teams to finish at position four in the last three seasons. The sleuths will be facing KCB this afternoon as they eye the top
position to represent the country in the African Clubs Championship. Led by the ever ever affable team captain Jane Mumbua, the queens are promising unending doses ‘vawulence’ against their opponents, in their quest to be at the top the league!
NO ESCAPE FOR ROBBERY SUSPECTS WHO FACED RECENTLY GRADUATED OFFICERS LAST NIGHT
Two suspects masquerading as detectives were arrested last night, after they raided an apartment at Kihunguro in Ruiru, Kiambu County.
The duo who raided a house at Elim Shepherd apartment at
around 1am, had introduced themselves as detectives based at Pangani police station before residents became suspicious and raised alarm, attracting officers from Ruiru police station who rushed to the scene and restored order. The swift response by the Ruiru based officers
caught the thugs by surprise as one of them attempted to fly from the 3rd floor of the apartment only to land on the apartment’s floor with a heavy thud seriously injuring his head.
Minutes after the residents made the all important call, the deafening rumbling sound of the
TWO ARMED THUGS KILLED IN FIERCE SHOOTOUT WITH CITY COPS
Two armed miscreants were fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon, following a fierce shootout between officers based at Njiru in Nairobi and three armed gangsters who were on a robbery mission.
The hawk-eyed officers who were on routine patrol along Kangudo road in an unmarked vehicle, had noticed a suspicious motorbike at Shujaa area whose pillion passengers were preying on their next victim. They immediately intercepted the bike at Kobil gas station and the in-charge
asked the miscreants to identify themselves. Nyinyi ni nani? he asked. But the defiant trio answered with gunfire, provoking a shootout that sent two of them back to their maker instantly.
Sounds of deafening gunfire reverberated across the plains, rat-a-tat-tat-tat!!! as the
SUSPECT IN MURDER OF CITY CONSULTANT KILLED ON SATURDAY ARRESTED
The main suspect behind the gruesome murder of 81-year-old city consultant Dr Gerishon Mwiti, who was hacked to death on January 14, 2023 at Thigiri ridge in Westlands Nairobi County, has been arrested.
The suspect Bernard Kioko, who was a gardener at Dr. Mwiti’s home has been arrested moments ago at Mabatini in Mathare settlement, after being on the run since committing the murder most foul last Saturday. According to the deceased’s son Daniel Mwiti, he found his father’s
lifeless body sprawled in their garden bearing a deep cut at the back of his head. This is after an operation that lasted more than 24 hours, after the suspect engaged detectives in a hide and seek game from Mwingi in Kitui county until his arrest this afternoon deep in the
A price of upto USD $10 million is being offered by the U.S government to anyone who will provide information leading to the arrest of the mastermind of the DusitD2 attack Mohamoud Abdi Aden, which occurred on January 15, 2019.
This was announced in a joint media briefing by the United States ambassador H.E Meg Whitman and the Director DCI Mr Mohamed Amin at the DCI headquarters. Also present during the media briefing were deputy assistant secretaries Julie Cabus and Paul Houston, who are in charge
of Training and Threat Investigations respectively, at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Mohamoud Abdi Aden aka Mohamoud Abdirahman was part of the cell that planned the DusitD2 Hotel attack, the last major terrorist attack in the country 4 years ago.