This archive report was first published on 4 October 2019.
Published on October 4, 2019, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested a 26-year-old Kenyan man in connection with the theft of money from several Equity Bank accounts last week.
The suspect, Peter Cheruiyot, was accused of hacking into accounts of Equity Bank customers and stealing more than Sh400,000. He was nabbed at his home in Mulot, Bomet County.
During the arrest, detectives recovered several phones and identification cards from the suspect's house.
According to the DCI, the 26-year-old suspect has been placed in custody and is being interviewed.
Police stations that may have received such fraud cases last week have been urged to liaise with the DCI office in Bomet for correspondence.
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. DCI said the suspects wired the money out of Wanjiku's account, through the mobile banking application, in four transactions.
