A group of Kenyans conspired to defraud various county governments in the US of Ksh60 million by posing as employees from a leading IT company.
Washington Post reported that Robert Muli, a 60-year-old Kenyan immigrant who lived in Ohio, admitted to having participated in the fraud.
He told the Alexandria Federal Court on Monday that he conspired with people from Kenya to defraud governments across the United States, including those of the cities of Philadelphia and Detroit and the state of Vermont.
A photo of a Courthouse in the United States
A co-conspirator in Kenya would email a contact in the local governments pretending to be an employee of a leading IT firm, asking the local governments to redirect payments to an alternative bank account.
Muli would then withdraw that money and transfer it to various accounts.
The scam took place between the months of August and September 2018.
Investigations commenced when the IT firm raised concerns that it had not received payments for services rendered.
“In September 2018, Fairfax County identified a financial fraud and immediately reported the incident to law enforcement,” county spokesman Tony Castrilli told the court.
Muli was the only one arraigned as one of his co-conspirators fled the country and the rest were in Kenya.
He is set to be sentenced on October 4 and faces up to 20 years in prison.
Anonymous says
Some kenyans have given bad name to kenya both locally and internationally. In some countries, they fear kenyans and Nigerians as highly trained thieves and conmen.
Anonymous says
THIEVES ARE NOT PATRIOTIC PEOPLE! THEY DO NOT GIVE A JACK SQUAT about any territory including OUTER SPACE to carry out their profession!
These self serving individuals will rob anybody or anything they believe is worth robbing, including their own mothers!
Kenya is being robbed blind by multi-NATIONALS from other African countries! Overseas thieves coming fro the Middle East, Europe, India, China, Russia, South America, Australia, New Zealand and USA (to name only a few) are in every corner with stealing gadgets! A professional thief only look for or create opportunities to rob something or someone!!
Foreign Banks in Kenya and elsewhere, including Central Banks are run by professional robbers!
SPORTSpesa and M-pesa are run by international PICK POCKETS allied with the local pick-pockets! SportsPESA even pick-pockets the lunch money from poor grade school of children living in slum neighborhoods and school fees from college students using sport betting gadgets!
POLITICAL ROBBERS (THE CARTELS) ARE IN CONTROL OF THE KENYAN GOVERNMENT, pick-pocketing the public funds; their hand-picked agents are OCCUPYING PARLIAMENTARY SEATS AFTER ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED (stolen) FOR THEM!!
THE WORLD IS AWASH WITH THIEVES, WITH MANY OF THEM TRYING TO BECOME POLITICAL PREACHERS SHOUTING “PRAISE THE LORD” while their hand are inside the pockets of the subdued congregations!!