Two land fraudsters arrested inside DCI headquarters while trying to bribe officer
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Two suspected land fraudsters arrested while trying to influence an investigation officer at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters
Two suspected land fraudsters arrested while trying to influence an investigation officer at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters.
According to DCI, in a statement on Friday, the suspects, identified as Jackson Mwangi and his accomplice Elijah Macharia walked inside the DCI headquarters and attempted to bribe a land fraud investigations unit (LFIU) officer to slow down investigations into a land grabbing case.
Unknown to them, their names were on the DCI radar as the most notorious land fraudsters in the country.
DCI was puzzled by the audacity of the wanted land fraudsters who wanted the investigator to delay the investigations by two months on a 0.2026 hectares parcel of land at Thome V area.
“In the daring bribery attempt to the country’s highest criminal investigations agency, all Jackson Mwangi sought from the investigator was a two-month delay in the ongoing investigations, within which he would have obtained a “fake original” documentation of the land,” read the statement in part.
“Suspecting that they were up to no good, the IO asked them to meet him at his office within DCI Headquarters, which they agreed,” DCI stated.
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The two pleaded with the IO to halt the investigation process as they had found a way of acquiring fake documents but needed January and February to wind up the process.
“Macharia placed Sh200,000 on the table as a tip to the officer, all this time unaware that the office they had been ushered into had mounted cameras that recorded all the ongoings,” DCI added.
DCI Operations detectives moved in and apprehended the two with the exhibits, for processing and arraignment.
A case file bearing the charges against the two was forwarded to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions ODPP in Kiambu who directed the suspects be released on a Sh200,000 cash bail as the office peruses the file.
After doing more investigations, DCI discovered that the land belonged to a deceased Kenyan, whose wife and kids were being threatened by a gang reportedly led by JM.
JM had, at the time, vanished after failing to produce ownership documents for the contested land, reappearing recently when he asked to meet with the Investigating Officer regarding the case.
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