A woman suspected of conning a Chinese national $101,000 (Ksh.13, 049, 200) in a fraudulent trade deal has been arrested.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Harriet Mary Wabwire, 38, posed as the Director of OTD Group Limited, claiming that she was able to supply aluminium alloys.
Wabwire is then said to have provided the victim with a forged Bill of Lading (BOL) and a counterfeit Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) certificate of conformity.
“These documents falsely asserted that a consignment of 23,890 kilograms of aluminium alloys had been securely packed in a 40-foot container, ready for shipment from the port of Mombasa to Ningbo, China,” DCI said on X.
She however switched off her phone after the Chinese national wired the money to her bank account.
An immediate probe was launched after the victim reported the matter, leading to Wabwire’s arrest from her hideout in Tassia, Embakasi East Sub-County in Nairobi.
She will remain in custody awaiting arraignment.
