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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – Court has frozen bank accounts belonging to Tebby Wambuku Kago, a friend to the 21-year old college girl Felista Nyamathira Njoroge.
Investigating Officer Fredrick Musyoki divulged that Tebby opened her bank account in February 2021 as a self-employed businesswoman, but the amount of sh 108 million that came in was suspicious as it did not depict any logical business income.
Ms Njoroge 21 recently grabbed headlines after she was found with a whopping sh 102 million lying idle in her bank account before her Belgian sponsor emerged claiming it was ‘just a gift’.
And freezing Teddy’s account on Tuesday December 14, Justice Esther Murima described the mysterious colossal in the young women’s accounts as suspicious and which need further scrutiny to establish if they were proceeds of international money crimes.
At the same time, another sh 5 million was discovered in Felista bank account and which the court has also frozen.
In a statement from the Assets Recovery Agency ARA, the huge sums of cash found lying idle in the two girls’ bank account must be investigated to ascertain the real source and intention.
The recovery agency revealed to court that on diverse dates, Tebby received sh 102.8 million and sh 37 million between August 10, 2021, and early November 2021. Out of the reserve, already sh 37 million was not being traced in the accounts meaning Teddy had already shared it out with friends and family members.
“That preservation orders are hereby issued prohibiting the respondents (Wambuku and Nyamathira) and or their representatives, employees, agents, servants or any other persons acting on their behalf from transacting, withdrawing, transferring, dealing in any manner whatsoever in respect to the funds and any profits or benefits derived or accrued from money held in the three bank account,” the court ordered.
Recovery body argued that the missing cash must have been quickly distributed to friends and relatives in their bid to conceal their action from Central Bank of Kenya CBK.
A Belgian national by the name Marc De Mesel – a crypto currency expert – recently emerged confessing how in November he had offered her pregnant girlfriend Felista the money as a gift for bearing a child with him.
