Police Arrests Politician Who Stole Money From A Shop To Fund His Campaign | READ DETAILS
A Kenyan politician, Mr. Benson Thuranira, has been arrested for allegedly stealing 64,000 shilling from an MPesa agent shop in Nakuru County.
According to Rift Valley Regional Director of Criminal Investigations Meme Mwenda, the suspect, a Narc Kenya MCA candidate for the Muthara ward in Meru County, was arrested after the victim reported the matter.
According to the police, the politician entered the M-Pesa shop and asked the agent to deposit Sh64,000. But he manipulated his phone so that it could not reflect the confirmation message and demanded his money back.
“The agent, upon checking her balance, realised that the money had already been sent. She raised the alarm and our officers traced the suspect before arresting him,” Mwenda added.
Investigation shows that the suspect has two similar cases in Shauri Moyo Nairobi and Busia, where he conned a woman of 60 bags of groundnuts and Sh60,000.
In Meru, he allegedly conned a businesswoman of Sh120,000 and defrauded other people in Mwea and Mombasa.
The detectives said the suspect told them he was looking for money to fund his campaigns.
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