This archive report was first published on 4 October 2019.
On Wednesday, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested a 26-year-old Kenyan man in Mulot, Bomet County, in connection with the theft of money from several Equity Bank accounts last week.
The suspect, Peter Cheruiyot, is accused of hacking into accounts of Equity Bank customers and stealing more than Sh400,000.
Cheruiyot's arrest came a day after DCI officers arrested three suspects for allegedly withdrawing Sh970,000 from an Equity Bank account belonging to 67-year-old Faith Wanjiku.
The three suspects, Anthony Babu Kaira, Kelvin Maina, and Joseph Kariuki, were arrested in Thika and allegedly wired the money out of Wanjiku's account through the mobile banking application in four transactions.
According to the DCI, the amount was transacted in four series using the Eazzy App in the sequence: Antony Kaira (Ksh.300,030), Kelvin Maina (Ksh. 300,030), Vivian Jelagat (Ksh300,030), and Ksh. 70K to various Equitel phone numbers.
The DCI has urged police stations that may have received such fraud cases last week to liaise with the DCI office in Bomet for correspondence.
