This archive report was first published on 9 September 2019.
On Saturday, detectives from the Special Crime Prevention Unit (SCPU) seized excavators worth over 40 million shillings that had been illegally imported into the country.
The bulldozers, valued at Sh43 million, were imported from India by Kenyan fraudsters and were seized in Changamwe, Mombasa County, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
DCI revealed that the equipment was shipped into the country after the fraudsters hacked into the email of the London-based company, placing an order for the bulldozers.
"The shipment was done by JCB International who, upon delivering the goods, contacted the brother company in Kenya for payment. It’s then that they learnt that the company doesn’t deal with such goods," said DCI in a statement.
One suspect, Nobert Njeru, was arrested and detained pending arraignment in court on Monday.
