The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives have arrested two suspected M-Pesa fraudsters said to have been terrorising residents of Machakos County and it’s environs.
The two suspects; 23-year-old Kevin Sagini Oroko and 27-year-old Dominic Otiso Nyabuto were apprehended from their hideout at Miwani Estate within Machakos town.
In a statement on Twitter, the DCI said that over 600 assorted Safaricom and Airtel Sim cards and 96 Kenyan national identity cards bearing different names were recovered.
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Also recovered included six mobile handsets, KCB Inua Jamii cash transfer cards, 16 bank agent transaction registers, two gambling machines and a laptop among other electronics.
The suspects have been put under police custody awaiting arraignment.
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