The Weekly Vision online has established that some of
the businesses that have fallen victim to the gang are a supermarket based at the
NextGen Mall on Mombasa road called Souk supermarket who are said to have lost
goods worth Ksh. 6 Million to the gang
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Muriuki on the left and Benja
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A criminal gang operating in Nairobi is suspected of having
stolen goods worth millions of shillings from the business community around the
city by presenting fake bankers cheques in exchange for various types of goods.
The gang is led by two individuals, one Asian only known as Benja and an African
called Muriuki. They target businesses operated by Asians.
The Weekly Vision online has established that some of
the businesses that have fallen victim to the gang are a supermarket based at the
NextGen Mall on Mombasa road called Souk supermarket who are said to have lost
goods worth Ksh. 6 Million to the gang. The items that were picked from the
supermarket include the latest models of TV sets, whose prices range from Ksh.
350,000 to the latest models of Hifi music systems. Chemicals firm Syngenta and
Seng’enge ni Ngombe just to name but a few.
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Benja seen here on CCTV being paid for goods supplied
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The group surveys their targets well in advance before sending
in a newly recruited jobless young individual, who in most cases would have
been led to believe that he was lucky and had landed a genuine job. A number of
young men are languishing in remand as a result of having fallen for the “fake”
jobs, offered to them by the group. They end up being arrested and charged in
court.
Timing is of the essence in these operations, says one of the
victims. They will walk in just a few minutes before you close for business and
when banks have long closed for the day or just before lunch hour, giving the
victims no time to call the bank for confirmation.
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