Kenyan Man Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud a Foreigner 67 Million Shillings
A businessman in Nairobi was charged with conspiracy to defraud a citizen from Malawi a whopping 67 million Kenyan shillings. This was by claiming to be in a position to ferry and transport cargo all the way to Malawi from Belgrade.
The businessman by the name of Peter Mutunga Kimile and some other people who were not present in court are alleged to have conspired to defraud Thomas Burton Coleman who is the Director of Trans Global Services between 5th April and 25th April 2022.
He was also charged on a second account with obtaining the aforementioned money. The third account that he was charged with was money laundering.
According to the complaint, Peter Mutunga Kimile who is the Director of Avisol Logistics had an agreement with Thomas Coleman to transport military cargo from Belgrade to Malawi for a fee of $445,000 of which he deposited the money to his I&M bank account in April 2022.
Peter Mutunga Kimile told Thomas Coleman that he owned a plane and he was going to use it in transporting the cargo to its destination. They even agreed on the dates and the timelines that the exercise was to take place.
The agreed dates and timelines passed and Peter Mutunga Kimile gave several reasons as to why he did not facilitate the transportation of the cargo. Some of the reasons that he cited were to do with the Insurance of the plane and the challenges to do with fuel.
Investigations commenced after Peter Mutunga Kimile cut off all communications with Thomas Coleman. This is what triggered the complainant to report the incident at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Headquarters.
